Coco Chanel Quotes
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To achieve great things, we must first dream.
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A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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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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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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Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style.
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There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
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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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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 comes when fashion succeeds.
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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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God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses.
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Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.
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J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
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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 is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman.
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
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As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.
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I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.
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If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.
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Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.