Coco Chanel Quotes (54 Quotes)


    I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

    Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

    Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

    Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

    Youth is something very new twenty years ago, no one mentioned it.


    Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

    Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly this touches me and I say ''One must not hide that'' Then someone tells you ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

    Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

    Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

    As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

    I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

    If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman

    Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

    A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

    There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

    It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

    Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

    A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

    I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.


    Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

    Scheherezade is easy a little black dress is difficult.

    There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

    Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

    The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you

    As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

    Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

    It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

    who, everyone knows, liberated women. Which allowed me years later to give them power and in a certain sense to liberate fashion.

    Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.


    Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

    Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

    Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

    Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

    Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.


    Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

    In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

    How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

    Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

    Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.


    Innovation One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

    There are people who have money and people who are rich.

    I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

    When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

    I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

    Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

    There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!


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