343 Quotes by Coco Chanel

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

who, everyone knows, liberated women. Which allowed me years later to give them power and in a certain sense to liberate fashion.

After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.

Great loves too must be endured.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.