Coco Chanel Quotes

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I've never been a much of a glamour girl.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

Elegance is refusal.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

What is elegance? Soap and water!