Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with liberating women from the constraints of the “corseted silhouette” and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. These Coco Chanel quotes will motivate you.
Best Coco Chanel Quotes
- “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “It’s not the appearance, it’s the essence. It’s not the money, it’s the education. It’s not the clothes, it’s the class.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step-down.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever” ~ Coco Chanel
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“Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Strength is built by one’s failures, not by one’s successes.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “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.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Keep your heel, head and standards high.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young” ~ Coco Chanel
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“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“Nothing is more beautiful than the freedom of the body.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory” ~ Coco Chanel
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“J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “There are no ugly women, only lazy.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Modesty is the highest elegance.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20’s, amazing in your 40’s and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Be classy. Anything but trashy.” ~ Coco Chanel Quotes
- “Keep your heels, head & standards high!” ~ Coco Chanel
- “The best accessory for a woman – handsome man!” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity” ~ Coco Chanel
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“Money for me has only one sound: liberty.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.” ~ 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.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “The right ingredients can create a legend.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “A woman with good shoes I never ugly!” ~ Coco Chanel
- “I don’t do fashion, I’m fashion” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “It’s not the rooms, it’s the life you live in them” ~ Coco Chanel
- “I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière – a real devil.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Elegance is refusal.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “When I find a color darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black!” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.” ~ Coco Chanel
