Coco Chanel quotes

“Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. ”

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel! ”

— Coco Chanel

“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”

— Coco Chanel

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

— Coco Chanel

“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. ”

— Coco Chanel

“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. ”

— Coco Chanel

“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. ”

— Coco Chanel

“I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. ”

— Coco Chanel