Coco Chanel Quotes
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Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.
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The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
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True generosity means accepting ingratitude.
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
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The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.
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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
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The right ingredients can create a legend.
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Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity.
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Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!
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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
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People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
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One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.
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An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
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I have only one curiosity left: death.
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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
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Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
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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.
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It's always better to be underdressed.
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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.
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Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
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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.
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There is no fashion for the old.
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Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.