Top 100 Coco Chanel Quotes
#1. I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
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#5. Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.
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#6. For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
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#7. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
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#11. 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.
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#12. A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period
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#13. Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
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#14. To achieve great things, we must first dream.
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#15. As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
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#16. Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
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#17. There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
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#19. In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.
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#20. A girl shout be two things: classy and fabulous.
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#21. I have only one curiosity left: death.
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#22. Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young
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#23. It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them
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#25. Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
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#26. Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
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#27. Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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#28. Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
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#30. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!
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#33. Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
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#34. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
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#35. Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.
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#36. I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
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#37. Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.
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#38. No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory
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#39. The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!
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#40. In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
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#41. Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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#42. People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
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#43. One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.
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#44. 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.
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#45. We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.
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#46. The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
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#47. Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.
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#48. Don't be like the rest of them, darling.
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#49. Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway
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#50. The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.
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#51. I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
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#53. I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
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#54. There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
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#55. Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
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#56. A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
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#57. An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
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#59. 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.
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#60. When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.
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#62. The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
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#63. It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
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#64. Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
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#65. A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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#66. Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity
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#67. Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
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#68. Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
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#69. May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
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#70. Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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#71. Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
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#72. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
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#74. Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
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#75. He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.
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#76. It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
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#77. To be irreplaceable you have to be different.
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#78. With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.
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#79. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
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#80. Keep your heels, head & standards high!
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#81. Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.
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#83. I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
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#84. A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.
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#86. Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
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#87. If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
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#88. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
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#89. In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
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#90. Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
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#91. The right ingredients can create a legend.
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#92. Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
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#93. Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!
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#94. A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have
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#95. Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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#96. In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
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#97. A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.
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#98. My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
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#99. Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
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#100. Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.
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