Coco Chanel Quotes
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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
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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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It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
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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.
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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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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.
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It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
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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.
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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
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Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
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There is no fashion for the old.
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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 like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
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I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
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A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
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Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
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Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style.
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He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
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Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
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With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.