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

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

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

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

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

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

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

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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

Fashion changes, but style endures.

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.

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.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

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

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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

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

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

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

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

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

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

To be irreplaceable you have to be different.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautifu

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.

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

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

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

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

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

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

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

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

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

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

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Since everything is in our heads we better not lose them.

When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.

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