Quotes from Coco Chanel

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

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

I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not

A woman in love is helpless.

With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

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.

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.

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

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

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

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

Since everything is in our heads, we better not lose them.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.