Top 50 Quotes About Life, Love, and Fashion from Coco Chanel

by amykoerner25November 23, 2021

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

2. “A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.”-Coco Chanel

3. “Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!” -Coco Chanel

4. “The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.” -Coco Chanel

5. “A woman with good shoes is never ugly.” -Coco Chanel

6. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” -Coco Chanel

7. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” -Coco Chanel 

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

9. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” -Coco Chanel

10. “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.” -Coco Chanel

11. “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.” -Coco Chanel

12. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”-Coco Chanel

13. “Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.” -Coco Chanel

14. “As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!” -Coco Chanel

15. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” -Coco Chanel

16. “A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant.” -Coco Chanel

17. “I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.” -Coco Chanel

18. “I don’t care what you think of me. I don’t think of you at all.” -Coco Chanel

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

20. “Elegance is not a prerogative of those who have escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.” -Coco Chanel

21. “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.” -Coco Chanel

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

23. “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.” -Coco Chanel

24. “Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.” -Coco Chanel

25. “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” -Coco Chanel

26. “My friends, there are no friends.” -Coco Chanel

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

28. “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.” -Coco Chanel

29. “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.” -Coco Chanel

30. “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

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

32. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.” -Coco Chanel

33. “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.” -Coco Chanel

34. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”-Coco Chanel35. “A woman has the age she deserves.” -Coco Chanel

36. “Great love too must be endured.” -Coco Chanel

37. “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”-Coco Chanel38. “Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.” -Coco Chanel

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

40. “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” -Coco Chanel

41. “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.” -Coco Chanel

42. “Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.” -Coco Chanel

43. “Elegance is refusal.” -Coco Chanel

44. 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

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

 
46. “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” -Coco Chanel

47. “Those create are rare, those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.” -Coco Chanel

48. “It’s always better to be slightly underdressed.” -Coco Chanel

49. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from the women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother that held them as infants.” -Coco Chanel

50. “I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.” -Coco Chanel

Thank you guys so much for reading, for more information in this impressive designer’s intriguing life you I have a complete biography on it for you HERE. Love y'all.

XOXO,

Amy