Coco Chanel Quotes

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. – Coco Chanel

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. – Coco Chanel

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. – Coco Chanel

A woman has the age she deserves. – Coco Chanel

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. – Coco Chanel

Fashion is made to become unfashionable. – Coco Chanel

Elegance is refusal. – Coco Chanel

Great loves too must be endured. – Coco Chanel

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

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! – 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 does not consist in putting on a new dress. – Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. – Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. – Coco Chanel

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. – Coco Chanel

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

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. – Coco Chanel

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – 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

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

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

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. – 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

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

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

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

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