Coco Chanel Quotes
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Keep your heels, head & standards high!
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Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
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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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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
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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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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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The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
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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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For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
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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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Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
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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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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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I'm for style - fashions change too often.
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Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
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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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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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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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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.