Coco Chanel Quotes

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

~ Coco Chanel

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

You live but once, you might as well be amusing.

~ Coco Chanel

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

~ Coco Chanel

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress, dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

~ Coco Chanel

Fashion changes, but style endures.

~ Coco Chanel

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

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.

~ Coco Chanel

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

~ Coco Chanel

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

~ Coco Chanel

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

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

~ Coco Chanel

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

~ Coco Chanel

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel

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

~ Coco Chanel