Quotes by Coco Chanel

“A woman has the age she deserves.”

“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.”

“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”

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

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

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

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

“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”

“Great loves too must be endured.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

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

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

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