Coco Chanel Quotes

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

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

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.

Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.

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

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

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil.

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

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

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

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.

Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.