Coco Chanel Quotes
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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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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 women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
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Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
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Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
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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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I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
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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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As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.
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May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
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A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.
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Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
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If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
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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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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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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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Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
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To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.
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Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.
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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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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.