"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
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 3 of 12)
235 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
"The worse a woman feels, the better should she look."
"Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside."
"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."
"A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life."
"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."
"If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman."
"If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack."
"My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume."
"There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people."
"My friends, there are no friends."
"The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life."
"Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body."
"Be classy. Anything but trashy."
"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
"The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you."
"To be irreplaceable, you have to be different."
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."