Why should I know Coco Chanel?

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

“A girl should be two things: Classy and fabulous.”

“A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.”

“A woman can be over-dressed but never over-elegant.”

“A woman has the age she deserves.”

“A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.”

“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”

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

“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.”

“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything.”

“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”

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

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

“Elegance is refusal.”

“Fashion fades, but style endures.”

“Fashion is architecture: It is a matter of proportions.”

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

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

“Great loves too must be endured.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“I’ve never done anything by halves.”

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

“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”

“In order to be irreplacable one must always be different”

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

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

“Keep your heels, head and standards high!”

“Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.”

“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”

“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”

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

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

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

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

“The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you.”

“The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud!”

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

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

“To achieve great things, we must first dream.”

“True generosity means accepting ingratitude.”

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

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”