Coco Chanel Quotes

1. Elegance is refusal. – Coco Chanel

2. Passion goes, Boredom remains. – Coco Chanel

3. Be classy. Anything but trashy. – Coco Chanel

4. There is no fashion for the old. – Coco Chanel

5. Great loves too must be endured. – Coco Chanel

6. I don’t do fashion, I AM fashion. – Coco Chanel

7. A woman has the age she deserves. – Coco Chanel

8. Fashion changes, but style endures. – Coco Chanel

9. Never a button without a buttonhole. – Coco Chanel

10. A woman with good shoes is never ugly! – Coco Chanel

11. Don’t be like the rest of them, darling. – Coco Chanel

12. Fashion is made to become unfashionable. – Coco Chanel

13. Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever. – Coco Chanel

14. Fashion fades, only style remains the same. – Coco Chanel

15. If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. – Coco Chanel

16. To achieve great things, we must first dream – Coco Chanel

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

18. Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. – Coco Chanel

19. My life didn’t please me, so I created my life. – Coco Chanel

20. A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. – Coco Chanel

21. You live but once; you might as well be amusing. – Coco Chanel

22. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. – Coco Chanel

23. A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. – – Coco Chanel

24. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. – Coco Chanel

25. A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant. – Coco Chanel

26. Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. – Coco Chanel

27. A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. – Coco Chanel

28. Women have always been the strong ones of the world. – Coco Chanel

29. Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. – Coco Chanel

30. Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. – Coco Chanel

31. A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. – Coco Chanel

32. Only those with no memory insist on their originality. – Coco Chanel

33. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. – Coco Chanel

34. Coquetry, it’s a triumph of the spirit over the senses. – Coco Chanel

35. Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today. – Coco Chanel

36. There are people who have money and people who are rich. – Coco Chanel

37. Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. – Coco Chanel

38. Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. – Coco Chanel

39. A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion – Coco Chanel

40. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. – Coco Chanel

41. I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. – Coco Chanel

42. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. – Coco Chanel

43. A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion. – Coco Chanel

44. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel

45. As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! – Coco Chanel

46. No one is young after forty, but one can be irresistible at any age – Coco Chanel

47. Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. – Coco Chanel

48. The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. – Coco Chanel

49. I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all. – Coco Chanel

50. If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep. – Coco Chanel

51. For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions. – Coco Chanel

52. He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world. – Coco Chanel

53. Capel said, Remember that you’re a woman. All too often I forgot that. – Coco Chanel

54. Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off. – Coco Chanel

55. Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics – Coco Chanel

56. Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel

57. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. – Coco Chanel

58. Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. – Coco Chanel

59. Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! – Coco Chanel

60. There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time. – Coco Chanel

61. Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity – Coco Chanel

62. The more stupid and unlucky man is, the more claims he makes to the woman. – Coco Chanel

63. In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset. – Coco Chanel

64. Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm. – Coco Chanel

65. I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not. – Coco Chanel

66. Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. – Coco Chanel

67. I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion. – Coco Chanel

68. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. – Coco Chanel

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

70. Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

71. No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die. – Coco Chanel

72. The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive. – Coco Chanel

73. Where should one use perfume? a young woman asked. Wherever one wants to be kissed. – Coco Chanel

74. Nothing makes a woman look older than obvious expensiveness, ornateness, complicatpon – Coco Chanel

75. Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautiful – Coco Chanel

76. Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. -Coco Chanel – Coco Chanel

77. When I find a colour darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black! – Coco Chanel

78. I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around – Coco Chanel

79. Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. – Coco Chanel

80. I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there. – Coco Chanel

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

82. Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. – Coco Chanel

83. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. – Coco Chanel

84. Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. – Coco Chanel

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

86. I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. – Coco Chanel

87. I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. – Coco Chanel

88. There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman – Coco Chanel

89. Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel

90. There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught. – Coco Chanel

91. A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat. – Coco Chanel

92. It is unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. – Coco Chanel

93. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. – Coco Chanel

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

95. Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve. – Coco Chanel

96. 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. – Coco Chanel

97. Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face. – Coco Chanel

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

99. 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. – Coco Chanel

100. 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. – Coco Chanel