Top 237 Quotes & Sayings by Coco Chanel - Page 4

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Before me no one would have dared dress in black

In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

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.

With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.

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

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

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

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

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 caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.

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.

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.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Fashion changes, Style remains

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

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

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

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

Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Passion always goes, and boredom stays.

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

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

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

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

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

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.

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

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.

That's what fame is: solitude.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

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.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

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

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.

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.

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.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

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

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.

Ask me who I don't dress!