Quotes by Coco Chanel

“There is no fashion for the old.”

“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”

“Dont spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

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

“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.”

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

“Elegance is refusal.”

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

“A women who doesnt wear perfume has no future.”

“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 woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed”

“If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman”

“I dont understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe thats the day she has a date with destiny. And its best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”

“There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught”

“There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time”

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

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

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.