Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

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.

- Coco Chanel

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.

- Coco Chanel

Great loves too must be endured.

- Coco Chanel

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

- 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

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

- Coco Chanel

A woman has the age she deserves.

- Coco Chanel

My friends, there are no friends.

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel