Famous Coco Chanel Quotes

Coco Chanel was a French Fashion designer as well as an entrepreneur, founder of the Chanel Brand. By means of her trademark little black dress and suits, she fashioned everlasting designs which are popular even today. Here are some of the well known quotes by Coco Chanel.

1. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” - Coco Chanel
2. “Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.” - Coco Chanel
3. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” - Coco Chanel
4. “It’s not houses I love, it’s the life I live in them.” - Coco Chanel
5. “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.” - Coco Chanel
6. “May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.” - Coco Chanel
7. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” - Coco Chanel
8. “One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.” - Coco Chanel
9. “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” - Coco Chanel
10. “Great loves too must be endured.” - Coco Chanel
11. “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” - Coco Chanel
12. “If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.” - Coco Chanel
13. “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. - Coco Chanel
14. “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” - Coco Chanel
15. “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” - Coco Chanel
16. “To be irreplaceable, you must be different.” - Coco Chanel
17. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.” - Coco Chanel
18. “Gentleness doesn’t get work done, unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.” - Coco Chanel
19. “The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive.” - Coco Chanel
20. “Only those with no memory insist on their originality.” - Coco Chanel
21. “A woman with good shoes is never ugly.” - Coco Chanel
22. “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.” - Coco Chanel
23. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” - Coco Chanel
24. “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” - Coco Chanel
25. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” - Coco Chanel
26. “How many cares one loses when one decides to to be something but to be someone.” - Coco Chanel
27. “Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.” - Coco Chanel
28. “I imposed black; it is still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.” - Coco Chanel
29. “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” - Coco Chanel
30. “Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.” - Coco Chanel
31. “All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.” - Coco Chanel
32. “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.” - Coco Chanel
33. “I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.” - Coco Chanel
34. “Elegance is refusal.” - Coco Chanel
35. “A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.” - Coco Chanel
36. “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.” - Coco Chanel
37. “Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.” - Coco Chanel
38. “Fashion changes-style remains.” - Coco Chanel
39. “I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little—if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.” - Coco Chanel
40. “There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.” - Coco Chanel
41. “I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.” - Coco Chanel
42. “The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.” - Coco Chanel
43. “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.” - Coco Chanel
44. “Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.” - Coco Chanel
45. “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” - Coco Chanel
46. “It is always better to be slightly underdressed.” - Coco Chanel
47. “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” - Coco Chanel
48. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” - Coco Chanel
49. “Women 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 Chanel
50. “Passion goes, Boredom remains.” - Coco Chanel
51. “Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!” - Coco Chanel
52. “I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.” - Coco Chanel
53. “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.” - Coco Chanel
54. “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.” - Coco Chanel
55. “Coquetry, it’s a triumph of the spirit over the senses.” - Coco Chanel
56. “Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.” - Coco Chanel
57. “Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.” - Coco Chanel
58. “My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.” - Coco Chanel
59. “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.” - Coco Chanel

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