The Best Coco Chanel quotes

Ask me who I don’t dress! — Coco Chanel

Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. — Coco Chanel

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult. — 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

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

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. — Coco Chanel

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. — Coco Chanel

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s always better to be underdressed. — Coco Chanel

It is always better to be slightly underdressed. — Coco Chanel

Great loves too must be endured. — Coco Chanel

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong–minded characters. I think it’s maybe because I’m like that. I love being by myself. — Audrey Tautou

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

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

A double bed can seem awfully small if your’e sharing it with someone you don’t love. (Misia) — Chris Greenhalgh

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

Passion goes, Boredom remains. — Coco Chanel

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

There is no fashion for the old. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is made to become unFashionable. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is in the sky, in the street. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel

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

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. — Coco Chanel

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there. — Coco Chanel

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

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

I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion. — Coco Chanel

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never. — Coco Chanel

Fashion fades, only style remains the same. — Coco Chanel

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

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. — Coco Chanel

I am neither in the past, nor avant–garde. My style follows life. — Coco Chanel

I’m for style–fashions change too often. — Coco Chanel

Fashion changes, but style endures. — Coco Chanel

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. — Coco Chanel

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel

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

I don’t want to think my life as a career. — Audrey Tautou

I invented my life because I wasn’t pleased with it. — Coco Chanel

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life. — 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, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of Your life. — Coco Chanel

My life didn’t please me, so I created my life. — Coco Chanel

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it’s such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years. — Audrey Tautou

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. — Coco Chanel

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

I don’t want to think my life as a career. I’m interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make. — Audrey Tautou

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. — Coco Chanel

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

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

I don’t really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it’s such a huge city. — Audrey Tautou

I love the fact that there’s an evolution in your understanding and the difference between the first time you play the role and last time you play the role–there’s an incredible arc and that’s wonderful. — Audrey Tautou

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

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. — Coco Chanel

There is time for work. and There is time for love. that leaves no other time. — 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