Coco Chanel Quotes

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

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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

Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.

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.

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

He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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

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

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

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