Top 200 Coco Chanel Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”

— Coco Chanel

102. “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”

— Coco Chanel

103. “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

105. “Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.”

— Coco Chanel

106. “If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don’t want to do PDA, it’s not that I have something against you.”

— Coco Chanel

107. “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

108. “Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.”

— Coco Chanel

109. “My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.”

— Coco Chanel

110. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

— Coco Chanel

111. “I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.”

— Coco Chanel

112. “There is no fashion for the old.”

— Coco Chanel

113. “Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.”

— Coco Chanel

114. “There are no ugly women, only lazy.”

— Coco Chanel

115. “Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young.”

— Coco Chanel

116. “I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature.”

— Coco Chanel

117. “May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.”

— Coco Chanel

118. “A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.”

— Coco Chanel

119. “Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!”

— Coco Chanel

120. “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

121. “Strength is built by one’s failures, not by one’s successes.”

— Coco Chanel

122. “Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.”

— Coco Chanel

123. “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

124. “Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.”

— Coco Chanel

125. “A woman has the age she deserves.”

— Coco Chanel

126. “I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”

— Coco Chanel

127. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”

— Coco Chanel

128. “Ask me who I don’t dress!”

— Coco Chanel

129. “A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have.”

— Coco Chanel

130. “Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.”

— Coco Chanel

131. “Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”

— Coco Chanel

132. “All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.”

— Coco Chanel

133. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”

— Coco Chanel

134. “There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman.”

— Coco Chanel

135. “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

136. “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”

— Coco Chanel

137. “If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.”

— Coco Chanel

138. “One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.”

— Coco Chanel

139. “A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

141. “Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”

— Coco Chanel

142. “A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.”

— Coco Chanel

143. “A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.”

— Coco Chanel

144. “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”

— Coco Chanel

145. “People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn’t look like anyone.”

— Coco Chanel

146. “Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.”

— Coco Chanel

147. “For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

149. “A woman in love is helpless.”

— Coco Chanel

150. “We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.”

— Coco Chanel