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

A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco Chanel

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Coco Chanel

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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 fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel


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.
Coco Chanel

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

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
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

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel

Great loves too must be endured.
Coco Chanel

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

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel

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

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.
Coco Chanel