Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel
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
Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel
Great loves too must be endured.
Coco Chanel
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
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
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco Chanel
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
Coco Chanel
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Coco Chanel
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
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Type:
Designer
Date of Birth:
1883-08-18
Year of Death:
1971
Nationality:
French |
