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The 54 Best Coco Chanel Quotes

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Tammy Lamoureux from lamourfoto.com
Last updated: 05/4/15

Coco Chanel was more than just a fashion icon. She helped define what it meant to be a woman in the 20th century.

She also had a way with words. Here is a collection of some of the best quotes by Coco Chanel, including several sharable picture quotes. Enjoy!

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I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.-Coco Chanel

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The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.-Coco Chanel

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

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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.-Coco Chanel

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Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.-Coco Chanel

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The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.-Coco Chanel

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Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.-Coco Chanel

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Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it’s not luxury.-Coco Chanel

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Great loves too must be endured.-Coco Chanel

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I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.-Coco Chanel

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Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.-Coco Chanel

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It’s always better to be underdressed.-Coco Chanel

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You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty and irresistible for the rest of your life.-Coco Chanel

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“Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.” I said.-Coco Chanel

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In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.-Coco Chanel

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Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.-Coco Chanel

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

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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.-Coco Chanel

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A woman in love is helpless.-Coco Chanel

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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.-Coco Chanel

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There are no ugly women in the world, just lazy ones.-Coco Chanel

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A girl should be two things.. Classy and fabulous.-Coco Chanel

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There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.-Coco Chanel

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

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

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You never know, maybe today is the day a woman has a date with destiny. It’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.-Coco Chanel

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

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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.-Coco Chanel

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Gentleness doesn’t get work done, unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.-Coco Chanel

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A good woman with good shoes is never ugly.-Coco Chanel

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Every day is a fashion show and the world is your runway.-Coco Chanel

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A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant.-Coco Chanel

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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.-Coco Chanel

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Nature gives you the face you have at 20. Life shapes the face you have at 30. But at 50, you get the face you deserve.-Coco Chanel

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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.-Coco Chanel

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It’s not houses I love, it’s the life I live in them.-Coco Chanel

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.-Coco Chanel

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

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