Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
- Coco Chanel
Truth, Times, Instinctive, Authenticity
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
- Coco Chanel
Time, Door, Hoping, Beating
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel
Wisdom, How, Cares, Loses
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, Possession, Escaped, Prerogative
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
Changes, Young, Feel, Outlook
My friends, there are no friends.
- Coco Chanel
Friends, No Friends
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
- Coco Chanel
Fashion, Design, Matter, Proportions
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.
- Coco Chanel
Young, Will, Bed, La
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, Age, Face, Twenty
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
- Coco Chanel
Boredom, Die, Some, Yacht
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
- Coco Chanel
Dress, Elegance, New, Consist
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
Women, Always, Been, Pillow
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
- Coco Chanel
Always, Irreplaceable, Must, Order
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
Women, Big, Always, Women Are
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
- Coco Chanel
Courage, Think, Most, Aloud
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
- Coco Chanel
My Life, Like, Which, Invented
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
- Coco Chanel
Boredom, Goes, Flee, Object
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
- Coco Chanel
Only, Been, Several, Westminster
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
- Coco Chanel
Women, Should, Things, Fabulous
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
- Coco Chanel
Guilt, Most, Perhaps, Painful
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
- Coco Chanel
Lose, Better, Had, Heads
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
- Coco Chanel
Stronger, Rare, Numerous, Latter
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
- Coco Chanel
Think, Some, Vulgarity, Some People
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
Sky, Street, Only, Happening
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
- Coco Chanel
Fashion, Made, Become
Great loves too must be endured.
- Coco Chanel
Loves, Must, Too, Endured
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
- Coco Chanel
Comfortable, Must, Otherwise, Luxury
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
- Coco Chanel
Women, Future, Wear, Perfume
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
- Coco Chanel
Work, Happen, Hen, Laying
Elegance is refusal.
- Coco Chanel
Elegance, Refusal
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
- Coco Chanel
Success, Failure, Inevitable, Often
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
Love, Business, Monotony, No Time
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
- Coco Chanel
Men, Know, Like, Children
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
- Coco Chanel
Men, Never, Weigh, Wanted
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
- Coco Chanel
Money, People, Who, Rich
A woman has the age she deserves.
- Coco Chanel
Age, Woman, She, Deserves
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
- Coco Chanel
Women, Men, Want, One Of The Things
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
- Coco Chanel
Woman, Look, Dress
It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
- Coco Chanel
Better, Always, Slightly
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