Coco Chanel famous quotes

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
-- Coco Chanel

#Beautiful #Hate #Elegance

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

#Fear #Wings #Flying

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
-- Coco Chanel

#Being Yourself #Moments

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

#Strength #Inspiring #Fashion

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Women #Dresses

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

#Inspirational #Success #Fashion

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Mirrors #House

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
-- Coco Chanel

#Being Yourself #Inspiration #Thinking

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

#Fashion #Reality #Dresses

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-- Coco Chanel

#Beauty #Gorgeous #Charming

Fashion changes, but style endures.
-- Coco Chanel

#Change #Fashion #Life Changing

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

#Love #Inspirational #Girly

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Matter #Architecture

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

#Motivational #Mother #Fashion

Be classy. Anything but trashy.
-- Coco Chanel

I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not
-- Coco Chanel

#Two #Drink #Champagne

If you are sad, If you are heartbroken , make yourself up , dress up , add more lipstick and attack . Men hate women who weep.
-- Coco Chanel

#Heartbroken #Hate #Men

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
-- Coco Chanel

#Destiny #House #Serendipity

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
-- Coco Chanel

#Strong #World

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

#Cutting #Hair #Haircuts

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

#Courage #Fashion #Thinking

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

#House

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Sky #Ideas

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
-- Coco Chanel

#Beauty #Girl #Fashion

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

#Eggs #Done #Hens

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
-- Coco Chanel

#Lace #Fantasy #Imitation

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

#Duchess

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Women #Heart

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
-- Coco Chanel

#Mean #Men #Burned

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
-- Coco Chanel

#Inspirational #Life #Fashion

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

#Fashion #Work #Creativity

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Air #Wind

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
-- Coco Chanel

#Beautiful #Elegance #Beautiful Inside

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

#Giving #Auras #Costumes

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants...
-- Coco Chanel

#Girl #Order #Two

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

#Creative #Done

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Accepting #Should

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

#Lying #Fighting #Games

My friends, there are no friends.
-- Coco Chanel

#Funny Friend #No Friends

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Departure #Unseen

simplicity is the key of elegance
-- Coco Chanel

#Keys #Simplicity #Elegance

There is no fashion for the old.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion

Fashion changes, Style remains
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Style #Remains

Keep your heels, head & standards high!
-- Coco Chanel

#Standards #Heels

Before me no one would have dared dress in black
-- Coco Chanel

#Black #Dresses

Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
-- Coco Chanel

#Departure #Perfume

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
-- Coco Chanel

#Art #Creativity #Source

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
-- Coco Chanel

#Taught #Women Bashing

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.
-- Coco Chanel

#Long #Alive #Ugly

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Everyday #World

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
-- Coco Chanel

#Thinking #Sky #Design

With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.
-- Coco Chanel

#Shoes #World #Four

I'm for style - fashions change too often.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Style

To achieve great things, we must first dream.
-- Coco Chanel

#Dream #Firsts #Achieve

An interior is the natural projection of the soul.
-- Coco Chanel

#Soul #Natural #Projection

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
-- Coco Chanel

#Regret #People #Unhappy

To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.
-- Coco Chanel

#Different #Irreplaceable

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Lying #Illusion

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
-- Coco Chanel

#Clothes #Numbers #Ease

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!
-- Coco Chanel

#Want #Perfume

A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.
-- Coco Chanel

#Interesting #Doe

J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
-- Coco Chanel

#Wonderful #Feels

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.
-- Coco Chanel

#Beautiful #Body

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
-- Coco Chanel

#Beauty #Fashion #Style

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
-- Coco Chanel

#Essence #Class #Clothes

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

#Beauty #Fashion #Thinking

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Greatness #Perfection

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

#Men #Want #Women Want

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.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Important #Looks

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
-- Coco Chanel

#Memories #Originality #Brilliant

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

#Dukes #Duchess

Passion goes, Boredom remains.
-- Coco Chanel

#Passion #Boredom #Remains

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

#Strong #Black #Wipe

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
-- Coco Chanel

#Men #Remember #Concern

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
-- Coco Chanel

#Inspirational #Real #Hard Times

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Luxury #Elegance

A woman has the age she deserves.
-- Coco Chanel

#Age #Deserve

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

#Inspirational #Positive Attitude #Opposites

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

#Fashion #Creativity #Stronger

There are people who have money and people who are rich.
-- Coco Chanel

#Money #People #Wealth

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

#Funny #Birthday #Beauty

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
-- Coco Chanel

#Girly #Women #Luxury

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.
-- Coco Chanel

#Strong Women #Opinion #Wonderful

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
-- Coco Chanel

#Inspirational #Fashion #Style

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

#Fashion #Taken #Luxury

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.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Life Changing #Sky

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
-- Coco Chanel

#Needs #Rope #Pearls

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

#Inspirational #Happiness #Graduation

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
-- Coco Chanel

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

#Men #Feet #Boredom

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Two #And Love

In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.
-- Coco Chanel

#Order #Different

You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.
-- Coco Chanel

#Health #Light #Nightlife

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory
-- Coco Chanel

#Unseen #Accessories #Unforgettable

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!
-- Coco Chanel

#Fashion #Shoes #Ugly

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends
-- Coco Chanel

#Luxury #Ends

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

#Love #Women #Bird

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
-- Coco Chanel

#Wearing Black #Black #Colour

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
-- Coco Chanel

#Add #Lipstick