Coco Chanel Quotes

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.

To achieve great things, we must first dream.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

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.

A woman has the age she deserves.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

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

Don`t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Dress sharply and they`ll remember the outfit; dress impeccably and they`ll remember the woman.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

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

Elegance is refusal.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.

Fashion passes, style remains.

Great loves too must be endured.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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

I don`t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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.

I love myself.

I was the one who changed, it wasn`t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

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

In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

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

I`ve never done anything by halves.

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

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

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

My friends, there are no friends.

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

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

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

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

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

Success is often achieved by those who don`t know that failure is inevitable.

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

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

There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.

A woman should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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

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

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.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.