Life Coco Chanel Quotes & Sayings

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself. — Coco Chanel

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility. — William Stanley Jevons

You live but once; you might as well be amusing. — Coco Chanel

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it. — Coco Chanel

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern. — Nicholas Rodger

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life, — Coco Chanel

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive. — Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them. — Coco Chanel

Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that. — Coco Chanel

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older. — Sarah Brightman

We have to imagine something before we can build the infrastructure that will allow it to exist. We have failed here on both fronts: in imagination and in reality. Our great weirdos, from Emily Dickinson to Simone Weil to Coco Chanel, are seen as outliers, as not relevant to the way we think through what we want out of life. It's the same way we discuss radical feminist writers like Dworkin and Firestone. Dworkin is unhinged, Firestone is too eccentric to be taken seriously. — Jessa Crispin

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life. — Coco Chanel

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large. — Bernard Levin

I feel shy when people are fussing on me. — Blake Lively

It's probably not just by chance that I'm alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he's terribly strong. And if he's stronger than I, I'm the one who can't live with him. ... I'm neither smart nor stupid, but I don't think I'm a run-of-the-mill person. I've been in business without being a businesswoman, I've loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I've loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I've done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. — Coco Chanel

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them — Coco Chanel

The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life. — Coco Chanel

Ninety percent of all species on earth had been eliminated. — Elizabeth Kolbert

When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.' — James Dobson

My life didn't please me, so I created my life. — 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

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. — Coco Chanel

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. — Coco Chanel

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. — Coco Chanel

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. — 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. — Coco Chanel