Coco Chanel Quotes

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period

If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable

Passion always goes, and boredom stays.

I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

That's what fame is: solitude.

As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

Ask me who I don't dress!

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

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

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

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

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

As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

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

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

To be irreplaceable you have to be different.

I don't do fashion, i am fashion

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia ― Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia

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

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.

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

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

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

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

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