Top 200 Coco Chanel Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.”

— Coco Chanel

153. “I’m for style – fashions change too often.”

— Coco Chanel

154. “There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.”

— Coco Chanel

155. “In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what’s left behind.”

— Coco Chanel

156. “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

157. “A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.”

— Coco Chanel

158. “Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”

— Coco Chanel

159. “An interior is the natural projection of the soul.”

— Coco Chanel

160. “Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.”

— Coco Chanel

161. “Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

163. “It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

165. “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.”

— Coco Chanel

166. “Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”

— Coco Chanel

167. “Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”

— Coco Chanel

168. “A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.”

— Coco Chanel

169. “I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.”

— Coco Chanel

170. “Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.”

— Coco Chanel

171. “Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.”

— Coco Chanel

172. “There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.”

— Coco Chanel

173. “The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one’s best advantage.”

— Coco Chanel

174. “An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.”

— Coco Chanel

175. “When I can no longer create anything, I’ll be done for.”

— Coco Chanel

176. “Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.”

— Coco Chanel

177. “Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.”

— Coco Chanel

178. “Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.”

— Coco Chanel

179. “Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.”

— Coco Chanel

180. “In 1919 I woke up famous. I’d never guessed it. If I’d known I was famous, I’d have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.”

— Coco Chanel

181. “I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there.”

— Coco Chanel

182. “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.”

— Coco Chanel

183. “I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”

— Coco Chanel

184. “I have only one curiosity left: death.”

— Coco Chanel

185. “Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.”

— Coco Chanel

186. “Never a button without a buttonhole.”

— Coco Chanel

187. “In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.”

— Coco Chanel

188. “Capel said, “Remember that you’re a woman.” All too often I forgot that.”

— Coco Chanel

189. “Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.”

— Coco Chanel

190. “If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.”

— Coco Chanel

191. “Es ist besonders schwer zu schweigen, wenn man nichts zu sagen hat.”

— Coco Chanel

192. “A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.”

— Coco Chanel

193. “Clothes by a man who doesn’t know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!”

— Coco Chanel

194. “There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.”

— Coco Chanel

195. “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

196. “In truth, women are the strong ones.”

— Coco Chanel

197. “A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period.”

— Coco Chanel

198. “I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.”

— Coco Chanel

199. “Always keep your head, heels, and standards high.”

— Coco Chanel

200. “It is through work that one achieves. Manna didn’t fall on me from heaven; I moulded it with my own hands... The secret of this success is that I’ve worked terribly hard... Nothing can replace work; not securities, or nerve, or luck.”

— Coco Chanel