Top 237 Quotes & Sayings by Coco Chanel - Page 2

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

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.

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

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

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

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.

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

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

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

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.

I've never done anything by halves.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.

There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

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

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

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

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

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

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion

A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young

There are no ugly women, only lazy.

A woman in love is helpless.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

I 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.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

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.

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.