Coco Chanel Quotes
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
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A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
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There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
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Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
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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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Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
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There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
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Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
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I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
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One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.
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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
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If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
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My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
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Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.
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Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.
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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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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
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The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.