Coco Chanel Quotes (22 quotations)
1. Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. - Coco Chanel
2. 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
3. Elegance is refusal. - Coco Chanel
4. Fashion is made to become unfashionable. - Coco Chanel
5. Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. - Coco Chanel
6. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. - Coco Chanel
7. I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate. - Coco Chanel
8. 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
9. I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel
10. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel
11. Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. - Coco Chanel
12. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. - Coco Chanel
13. Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. - Coco Chanel
14. Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. - Coco Chanel
15. Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. - Coco Chanel
16. Nature gives you the face you have at 20; it is up to you to merit the face you have at 50. - Coco Chanel
17. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. - Coco Chanel
18. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. - Coco Chanel
19. There are people who have money and people who are rich. - Coco Chanel
20. 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
21. Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. - Coco Chanel
22. Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. - Coco Chanel
2. 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
3. Elegance is refusal. - Coco Chanel
4. Fashion is made to become unfashionable. - Coco Chanel
5. Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. - Coco Chanel
6. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. - Coco Chanel
7. I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate. - Coco Chanel
8. 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
9. I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel
10. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel
11. Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. - Coco Chanel
12. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. - Coco Chanel
13. Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. - Coco Chanel
14. Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. - Coco Chanel
15. Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. - Coco Chanel
16. Nature gives you the face you have at 20; it is up to you to merit the face you have at 50. - Coco Chanel
17. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. - Coco Chanel
18. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. - Coco Chanel
19. There are people who have money and people who are rich. - Coco Chanel
20. 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
21. Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. - Coco Chanel
22. Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. - Coco Chanel
