Coco Chanel Quotes
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It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
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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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Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
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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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I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
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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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It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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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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A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.
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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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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
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Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
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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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A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
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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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There is no fashion for the old.
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May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
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He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world
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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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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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With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.