Coco Chanel Quotes
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
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After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.
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Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
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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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Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
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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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Modesty is the highest elegance.
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A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
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I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
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In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
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Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
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An interior is the natural projection of the soul.
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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
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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.
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I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature.
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Keep your heel, head and standards high.
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I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.
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A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.