Quotes by Coco Chanel

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

"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."

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

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

"Elegance is refusal."

"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."

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

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

"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."

"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."

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."

"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."

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

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."

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

"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."