I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco ChanelI consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
Coco ChanelA style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
Coco ChanelOne 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 ChanelJump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Coco ChanelThere is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.
Coco ChanelThere is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco ChanelI consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
Coco ChanelYves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
Coco ChanelDisregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.
Coco ChanelIn 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
Coco ChanelTraveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.
Coco ChanelYou can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Coco ChanelWomen have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco ChanelWomen think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
Coco ChanelAs extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.
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