Coco Chanel

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That’s politics.

Coco Chanel

With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.

Coco Chanel

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Coco Chanel

Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.

Coco Chanel

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Coco Chanel

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

Coco Chanel

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

Coco Chanel