Coco Chanel Quotes
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To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.
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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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Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
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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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A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
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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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I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
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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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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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Great loves too must be endured.
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A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
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It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
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I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
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Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
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I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
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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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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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It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
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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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There is no fashion for the old.
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I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.