Coco Chanel Quotes - Page 4

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

I've never done anything by halves.

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.

My friends, there are no friends.