Coco Chanel Quotes

We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.

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

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

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

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

A woman has the age she deserves.

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.