Coco Chanel

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

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 made to become unfashionable.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

A woman has the age she deserves.

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

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

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

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

Great loves too must be endured.

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

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

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

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

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

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.

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

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