Coco Chanel Quotes
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Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
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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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In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
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I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
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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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If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
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Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity.
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I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
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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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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
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You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
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I have only one curiosity left: death.
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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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One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.
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In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.
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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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Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
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Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
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Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.
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A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
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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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If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
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It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.