Quotes By Coco Chanel

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

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

My friends, there are no friends.

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

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.

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

Great loves too must be endured.

Elegance is refusal.

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.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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

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.

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

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.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

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

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

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.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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

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

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

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

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

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

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

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.