Top 237 Quotes & Sayings by Coco Chanel - Page 3

A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have

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

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

I'm for style - fashions change too often.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.

simplicity is the key of elegance

When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.

Fashion passes, but style remains.

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

It's always better to be underdressed.

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

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

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

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.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

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.

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.

There is no fashion for the old.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

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.

God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

Fashion changes, but style endures.

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.

The right ingredients can create a legend.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

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

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

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.

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.

An interior is the natural projection of the soul.

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

In truth, women are the strong ones.

Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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.

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

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.

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.

In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.