Coco Chanel Quotes

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Elegance is refusal.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Great loves too must be endured.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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

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.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

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

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

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

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