Coco Chanel famously lived her life according to her own rules. Her musings on elegance, love, and life are as timeless as her classic Chanel designs. Take a look at the founder of Chanel's most memorable, inspiring, and outspoken quotes here.
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"Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!"
-Coco Chanel
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"Elegance is refusal."
-Coco Chanel
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"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
-Coco Chanel
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"Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds."
-Coco Chanel
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"You live but once, you might as well be amusing."
-Coco Chanel
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"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
-Coco Chanel
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"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
-Coco Chanel
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"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
-Coco Chanel
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"Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside."
-Coco Chanel
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"I don't do fashion. I am fashion."
-Coco Chanel
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"I don't care what you think of me. I don't think of you at all."
-Coco Chanel
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"If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack."
-Coco Chanel
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"I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not."
-Coco Chanel
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"You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life."
-Coco Chanel
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"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."
-Coco Chanel
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"A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant."
-Coco Chanel
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"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."
-Coco Chanel
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"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"
-Coco Chanel
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"My life didn't please me, so I created my life."
-Coco Chanel
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"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."