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A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
Coco Chanel
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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
Coco Chanel
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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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Keep your heels, head & standards high!
Coco Chanel
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Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
Coco Chanel
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
Coco Chanel
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For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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I'm for style - fashions change too often.
Coco Chanel
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Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
