Coco Chanel's Quotes

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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

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

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

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

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

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

My friends, there are no friends.

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

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

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.

Elegance is refusal.

Great loves too must be endured.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.