Quotes from Coco Chanel

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

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

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

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

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

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.

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

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

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

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

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

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.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.