Coco Chanel Quotes

"I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it."

"There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time."

"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."

"My friends, there are no friends."

"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."

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

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

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."

"There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!"

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

"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"

"Great loves too must be endured."

"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."

"Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs."

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

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

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

"Material things aside, we need no advice but approval."

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."