Coco Chanel Quotes

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

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

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To achieve great things, we must first dream.

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.

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

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.

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

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

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

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

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

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

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

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

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

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

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

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

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

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.

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

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.

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

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

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

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

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

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.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

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.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

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

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

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

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

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