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A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. -- Coco Chanel
Creativity is the art of concealing your sources. -- Coco Chanel
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy. -- Coco Chanel
Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume. -- Coco Chanel
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. -- Coco Chanel
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses. -- Coco Chanel
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -- Coco Chanel
A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism. -- Coco Chanel
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. -- Coco Chanel
There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people. -- Coco Chanel
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. -- Coco Chanel
Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them. -- Coco Chanel
Keep your heel, head and standards high. -- Coco Chanel
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant. -- Coco Chanel
One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence. -- Coco Chanel
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. -- Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. -- Coco Chanel
There 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 captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night -- Coco Chanel
Disregarding 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 Chanel
Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself. -- Coco Chanel
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. -- Coco Chanel
I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life, -- Coco Chanel
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. -- Coco Chanel
Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes. -- Coco Chanel
As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things. -- Coco Chanel
True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease. -- Coco Chanel
If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else. -- Coco Chanel
Only those with no memory insist on their originality. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion is made to become unfashionable. -- Coco Chanel
Never a button without a buttonhole. -- Coco Chanel
"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed." -- Coco Chanel
Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. -- Coco Chanel
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. -- Coco Chanel
All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything. -- Coco Chanel
Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch. -- Coco Chanel
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. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. -- Coco Chanel
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck. -- Coco Chanel
Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style -- Coco Chanel
Material things aside, we need not advice but approval. -- Coco Chanel
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. -- Coco Chanel
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future. -- Coco Chanel
Don't be like the rest of them, darling. -- Coco Chanel
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. -- Coco Chanel
After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda. -- Coco Chanel
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all. -- Coco Chanel
Ask me who I don't dress! -- Coco Chanel
When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black! -- Coco Chanel
The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life. -- Coco Chanel
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman -- Coco Chanel
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time. -- Coco Chanel
As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly. -- Coco Chanel
He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. -- Coco Chanel
A woman without perfume is a woman without a future. -- Coco Chanel
Passion goes, Boredom remains. -- Coco Chanel
Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed. -- Coco Chanel
In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind. -- Coco Chanel
Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed! -- Coco Chanel
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. -- Coco Chanel
Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway -- Coco Chanel
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. -- Coco Chanel
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress, and if she's impeccably dressed, you notice the woman. -- Coco Chanel
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
The more stupid and unlucky man is,
the more claims he makes to the woman. -- Coco Chanel
When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on. -- Coco Chanel
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. -- Coco Chanel
To be irreplaceable you have to be different. -- Coco Chanel
A woman with good shoes i never ugly! -- Coco Chanel
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. -- Coco Chanel
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. -- Coco Chanel
You live but once; you might as well be amusing. -- Coco Chanel
My life didn't please me, so I created my life. -- Coco Chanel
May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life. -- Coco Chanel
It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them. -- Coco Chanel
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive. -- Coco Chanel
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. -- Coco Chanel
Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that. -- Coco Chanel
I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it. -- Coco Chanel
My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself. -- Coco Chanel
It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them -- Coco Chanel
Elegance is refusal. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. -- Coco Chanel
It's always better to be underdressed. -- Coco Chanel
I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not -- Coco Chanel
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught. -- Coco Chanel
Be classy. Anything but trashy. -- Coco Chanel
A woman has the age she deserves. -- Coco Chanel
Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young -- Coco Chanel
Perfume heralds a woman's arrival and prolongs her departure. -- Coco Chanel
No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory -- Coco Chanel
A woman should wear perfume wherever she wants to be kissed. -- Coco Chanel
Keep your heels, head & standards high! -- Coco Chanel
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. -- Coco Chanel
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel! -- Coco Chanel
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. -- Coco Chanel
Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever -- Coco Chanel
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
God knows I wanted love ... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses ... I chose the dresses -- Coco Chanel
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris. -- Coco Chanel
In 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 Chanel
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. -- Coco Chanel
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. -- Coco Chanel
Before me no one would have dared dress in black -- Coco Chanel
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. -- Coco Chanel
I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around -- Coco Chanel
Great loves too must be endured. -- Coco Chanel
I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing. -- Coco Chanel
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. -- Coco Chanel
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
A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40. -- Coco Chanel
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! -- Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. -- Coco Chanel
A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback. -- Coco Chanel
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. -- Coco Chanel
Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one! -- Coco Chanel
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. -- Coco Chanel
A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking. -- Coco Chanel
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become. -- Coco Chanel
I don't do fashion, I'm fashion -- Coco Chanel
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
Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help. -- Coco Chanel
True generosity means accepting ingratitude. -- Coco Chanel
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. -- Coco Chanel
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,
but to make them beautifu -- Coco Chanel
If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you. -- Coco Chanel
Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive. -- Coco Chanel
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. -- Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. -- Coco Chanel
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends -- Coco Chanel
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. -- Coco Chanel
Modesty is the highest elegance -- Coco Chanel
simplicity is the key of elegance -- Coco Chanel
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. -- Coco Chanel
I've never done anything by halves. -- Coco Chanel
I have only one curiosity left: death. -- Coco Chanel
A girl shout be two things: classy and fabulous. -- Coco Chanel
In order to be different one must be irreplaceble. -- Coco Chanel
I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion. -- Coco Chanel
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. -- Coco Chanel
The best accessory for a woman - handsome man! -- Coco Chanel
A girl should be two things:: classy & fabulous -- Coco Chanel
Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult. -- Coco Chanel
Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs. -- Coco Chanel
Passion always goes, and boredom stays. -- Coco Chanel
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. -- Coco Chanel
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. -- Coco Chanel
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. -- Coco Chanel
For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions. -- Coco Chanel
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. -- Coco Chanel
That's what fame is: solitude. -- Coco Chanel
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! -- Coco Chanel
To achieve great things, we must first dream. -- Coco Chanel
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period -- Coco Chanel
A woman in love is helpless. -- Coco Chanel
There is no fashion for the old. -- Coco Chanel
It is always better to be slightly underdressed. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. -- Coco Chanel
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. -- Coco Chanel
If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman. -- Coco Chanel
a girl should be two things:: classy & fabulous -- Coco Chanel
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays. -- Coco Chanel
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever. -- Coco Chanel
Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm. -- Coco Chanel
It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion is in the sky, in the street. -- Coco Chanel
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. -- Coco Chanel
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. -- Coco Chanel
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. -- Coco Chanel
Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains. -- Coco Chanel
The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. -- Coco Chanel
In truth, women are the strong ones. -- Coco Chanel
The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution. -- Coco Chanel
As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world. -- Coco Chanel
There are no ugly women, only lazy. -- Coco Chanel
A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates. -- Coco Chanel
A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat. -- Coco Chanel
One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people. -- Coco Chanel
We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own. -- Coco Chanel
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. -- Coco Chanel
Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival. -- Coco Chanel
An interior is the natural projection of the soul. -- Coco Chanel
I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think. -- Coco Chanel
The worse a woman feels, the better should she look. -- Coco Chanel
I'm for style - fashions change too often. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion fades, only style remains the same. -- Coco Chanel
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different. -- Coco Chanel
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. -- Coco Chanel
Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today. -- Coco Chanel
If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion changes, but style endures. -- Coco Chanel
Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity -- Coco Chanel
No one is young after forty, but one can be irresistible at any age -- Coco Chanel
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion -- Coco Chanel
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable -- Coco Chanel
Fashion passes, but style remains. -- Coco Chanel
A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have -- Coco Chanel
Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless. -- Coco Chanel
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there. -- Coco Chanel
The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion -- Coco Chanel
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics -- Coco Chanel
There are people who have money and people who are rich. -- Coco Chanel
In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset. -- Coco Chanel
The right ingredients can create a legend. -- Coco Chanel
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. -- Coco Chanel
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume. -- Coco Chanel
My friends, there are no friends. -- Coco Chanel
People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone. -- Coco Chanel
A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls. -- Coco Chanel
If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep. -- Coco Chanel
He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right. -- Coco Chanel
With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world. -- Coco Chanel
Money for me has only one sound: liberty. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road. -- Coco Chanel
Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us. -- Coco Chanel
There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is. -- Coco Chanel
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. -- Coco Chanel
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right. -- Coco Chanel
When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for. -- Coco Chanel
