Coco Chanel Quotes

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

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.

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

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

The right ingredients can create a legend.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

Fashion changes, Style remains

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

I've never done anything by halves.

Fashion passes, but style remains.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

I'm for style - fashions change too often.

If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

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

In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Before me no one would have dared dress in black

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

It's always better to be underdressed.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.