Coco Chanel

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

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

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

It__ probably not just by chance that I__ alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he__ terribly strong. And if he__ stronger than I, I__ the one who can__ live with him. _ I__ neither smart nor stupid, but I don__ think I__ a run-of-the-mill person. I__e been in business without being a businesswoman, I__e loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I__e loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I__e done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

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.

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

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

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.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

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