Quotes By Coco Chanel

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.

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

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

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

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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

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

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

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

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

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

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

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

A woman has the age she deserves.

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

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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

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.