Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

— Coco Chanel

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

— Coco Chanel

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

— Coco Chanel

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

— Coco Chanel

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

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

— Coco Chanel

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

— 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

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

— Coco Chanel

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

— Coco Chanel