Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young.
Great loves too must be endured.
I imposed black; it’s still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
A woman with good shoes is never ugly!
Nothing is as ugly as long as it is alive.
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful.
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.