Coco Chanel Quotes
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There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman.
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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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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
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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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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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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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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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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
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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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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
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As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.
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A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her 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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Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
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To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.
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May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
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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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Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
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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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If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
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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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If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
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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.