"Passion always goes, and boredom stays."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
Coco Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer known for revolutionizing women's fashion with her modernist approach and the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume.
- Born
- September 19, 1883
- Died
- January 10, 1971
- Quotes
- 235
- Rank
- #288
Quote collection
Coco Chanel quotes (page 12 of 12)
235 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable"
"Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics."
"Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful."
"I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life."
"As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world."
"Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts."
"A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism."
"May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life."
"Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses."
"I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion."
"Ask me who I don't dress!"
"Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself."
"As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things."
"That's what fame is: solitude."