In the words of Coco Chanel:
If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.
In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.
Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.
A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.
Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.
Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.
There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.
If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.
It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.
I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.
If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
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