Coco Chanel Quotes
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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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Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
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Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
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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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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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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
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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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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
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Keep your heels, head & standards high!
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For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
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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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In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
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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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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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Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
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Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
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My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
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Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
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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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Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
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Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.