Speed is the essence of war.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

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

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

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

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

I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

The more stupid and unlucky man is, the more claims he makes to the woman.

For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions.

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

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

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

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.

My friends, there are no friends.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him.

I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.

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

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

If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.

Great loves too must be endured.

In 1919 I woke up famous. I’d never guessed it. If I’d known I was famous, I’d have stolen away and wept.

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

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

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

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

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

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

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

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

Where should one use perfume?’ a young woman asked. ‘Wherever one wants to be kissed,’ I said.

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful

A woman with good shoes is never ugly

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.

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

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Coco ChanelYou can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there

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

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.

There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.

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

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.

A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

It is The Unseen, Unforgettable, Ultimate Accessory of Fashion That Heralds Your Arrival and Prolongs Your Departure.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

I don’t do fashion, I AM fashion.

When I find a colour darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black

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

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

The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

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

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

Scheherazade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

Never a button without a buttonhole.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

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

I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil

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

I imposed black; it’s still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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

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

I don’t care what you think of me. I don’t think of you at all.

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Coquetry, it’s a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Capel said, Remember that you’re a woman. All too often I forgot that.

Ask me who I don’t dress!

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future

There are people who have money and people who are rich

Fashion changes, but style endures.

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

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

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

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Elegance is refusal.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Don’t be like the rest of them, darling

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

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress

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

Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.