Coco chanel quotes

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

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

To achieve great things, we must first dream.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

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.

Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

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

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

Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.

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

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

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

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

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.

There are no ugly women, only lazy.

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

A woman in love is helpless.

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

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion

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

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

I'm for style - fashions change too often.

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Modesty is the highest elegance

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

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

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

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.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

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.

Passion always goes, and boredom stays.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not

A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.

simplicity is the key of elegance

The right ingredients can create a legend.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

I've never done anything by halves.

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.

We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

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

A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

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

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.

J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

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

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

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

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

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

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

Elegance is refusal.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.

My friends, there are no friends.

You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.

Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

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.

People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

Passion goes, Boredom remains.