Top 200 Coco Chanel Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

— Coco Chanel

52. “J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”

— Coco Chanel

53. “The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.”

— Coco Chanel

54. “Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.”

— Coco Chanel

55. “A woman with good shoes i never ugly!”

— Coco Chanel

56. “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.”

— Coco Chanel

57. “Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity.”

— Coco Chanel

58. “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.”

— Coco Chanel

59. “If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.”

— Coco Chanel

60. “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.”

— Coco Chanel

61. “I’m so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn’t make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.”

— Coco Chanel

62. “One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.”

— Coco Chanel

63. “A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.”

— Coco Chanel

64. “It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”

— Coco Chanel

65. “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.”

— Coco Chanel

66. “Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu.”

— Coco Chanel

67. “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

68. “When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you’ve put on.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

70. “It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”

— Coco Chanel

71. “There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!”

— Coco Chanel

72. “True generosity means accepting ingratitude.”

— Coco Chanel

73. “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

75. “Be classy. Anything but trashy.”

— Coco Chanel

76. “The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

78. “Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.”

— Coco Chanel

79. “My friends, there are no friends.”

— Coco Chanel

80. “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

82. “Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.”

— Coco Chanel

83. “That’s what fame is: solitude.”

— Coco Chanel

84. “Great loves too must be endured.”

— Coco Chanel

85. “I’ve never done anything by halves.”

— Coco Chanel

86. “Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.”

— Coco Chanel

87. “I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.”

— Coco Chanel

88. “Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.”

— Coco Chanel

89. “The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.”

— Coco Chanel

90. “He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.”

— Coco Chanel

91. “Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.”

— Coco Chanel

92. “Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.”

— Coco Chanel

93. “Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.”

— Coco Chanel

94. “Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.”

— Coco Chanel

95. “Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.”

— Coco Chanel

96. “Passion goes, Boredom remains.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

98. “Before me no one would have dared dress in black.”

— Coco Chanel

99. “Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

— Coco Chanel

100. “Fashion is in the sky, in the street.”

— Coco Chanel