Coco Chanel

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.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

A woman has the age she deserves.

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

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

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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

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

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