Coco Chanel – 20 Quotes

20 Quotes by Coco Chanel

A woman has the age she deserves.

– 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

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

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

– Coco Chanel

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

– Coco Chanel

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

– Coco Chanel

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

– 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

Great loves too must be endured.

– Coco Chanel

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

– Coco Chanel

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

– Coco Chanel

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

– Coco Chanel

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

– Coco Chanel

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

– Coco Chanel

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

– Coco Chanel

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

– Coco Chanel

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

– Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

– Coco Chanel

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

– Coco Chanel