Coco Chanel quotes - page 3

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil. (Coco Chanel)
There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night. View quote
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Scheherezade is easy a little black dress is difficult. View quote
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. View quote
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I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. View quote
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My friends, there are no friends. View quote
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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. View quote
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Elegance is refusal. View quote
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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. View quote
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. View quote
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It is always better to be slightly underdressed. (Coco Chanel)
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. View quote
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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. View quote
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. View quote
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Great loves too must be endured. View quote
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. View quote
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Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. View quote
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. View quote
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. View quote
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. View quote
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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)
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel! View quote
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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. View quote
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He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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