Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel

20 quotes

As a French fashion designer, Coco Chanel earned a lasting place in the canon of memorable quotations. Their thinking spans from Women to Men, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 31 quotes from Coco Chanel, each offering a different angle on Women, Men, Time, Work, and Truth. Consider this gem from Coco Chanel: "There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"

“Great loves too must be endured.”

— Coco Chanel

Great

All Quotes by Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

Failure

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

— Coco Chanel

Money

“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”

— Coco Chanel

Future

“Great loves too must be endured.”

— Coco Chanel

Great

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

— Coco Chanel

Time

“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”

— Coco Chanel

Men

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

— Coco Chanel

Men

“A woman has the age she deserves.”

— Coco Chanel

Age

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

— Coco Chanel

Business

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

— Coco Chanel

Valentinesday

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

— Coco Chanel

Work

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

— Coco Chanel

Courage

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

— Coco Chanel

Nature

“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

Men

“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”

— Coco Chanel

Architecture

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

— Coco Chanel

Truth

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

— Coco Chanel

Death

“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”

— Coco Chanel

Future

“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

Men

“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

Alone