Coco Chanel Quotes
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Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
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Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
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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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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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A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.
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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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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
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If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
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A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.
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The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
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Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
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For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
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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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Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
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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.
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There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
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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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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
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I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.