Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Be classy. Anything but trashy.
I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
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.
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!