A biography for Coco Chanelhasn’t been written yet.
“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
“No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.”
“A woman has the age she deserves.”
“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
“Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.”
“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“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.”
“My friends, there are no friends.”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”