Coco Chanel quotes

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
- Coco Chanel

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
- Coco Chanel

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
- Coco Chanel

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

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity
- Coco Chanel

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
- Coco Chanel

I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.
- Coco Chanel

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
- Coco Chanel

There are people who have money and people who are rich.
- Coco Chanel

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
- Coco Chanel

The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive.
- Coco Chanel

A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant.
- 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

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
- Coco Chanel

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
- 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

Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.
- Coco Chanel

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
- Coco Chanel

If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.
- Coco Chanel

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little.
- Coco Chanel

Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.
- Coco Chanel

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
- Coco Chanel

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