Coco Chanel Quotes - Page 9

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

That's what fame is: solitude.

The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

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.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.

Ask me who I don't dress!

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period