Coco Chanel

It's awful to show one's knees when one doesn't have pretty knees.

Most women with ugly knees have thick hips, they're made for bearing children.

I go to dinner and I see 70 percent of women wearing pants. That's sad.

There are only three important women in the world, not more.

She has a whole long quote in reference to Jewish people which uses the phrase exterminated altogether.

You know Mr Vaughan, these were very difficult times, and people had to do very terrible things to get along.

Hollywood is the capital of bad taste ... and it is vulgar.

I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

I love myself. I am the great love of my life.

A woman should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I disliked would disappear.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

Dress shabbily and they Loch Ness the clothes. Dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Fashion passes, style remains.

A woman has the age she deserves.

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little — if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what an elegance!