Quotes from Coco Chanel

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

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

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

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

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

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.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

My friends, there are no friends.

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

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

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

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

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

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

When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.

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

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

I have only one curiosity left: death.