A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Great loves too must be endured.

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.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.