Quotes from Coco Chanel

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

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

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

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

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

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

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

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

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Fashion does not exist unless it goes down into the streets.

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

Great loves too must be endured.

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.