Coco Chanel

"The body must be dressed with care, the mind dressed even more carefully, but it is the spirit that makes all the difference."

"Everything that is moderately good is bad when it could be excellent."

"Fear is not an excuse to stop."

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble on the road."

"Do not follow trends, follow yourself."

"I only reply to beauty, and the beautiful thing is in silence."

"Elegance is elimination."

"The minute you stop wanting something you get it."

"The most elegant women are those who are indifferent to being elegant."

"Never chase love. Instead, love fiercely and they will chase you."

"Women dress alike all over the world; they just haven't discovered that yet."

"Don't agonize. Organize."

"Idle hands make a devil's plaything out of life."

"I prefer the smell of sweat to the stench of perfection."

"The surest way to ruin a man is to make him believe that he is ruined."

"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."

"It is not enough to have taste; one must have the courage of one's taste."

"I don't like standards. I like the people who set them."

"Nature gives you the face you're born with. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve."

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

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

"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."

"The best time to wear a striped sweater was last season, but the second best time is now."

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

"I believe that it is my right to refuse surgery, just as it is my right to refuse any other treatment."

"Elegance is not being noticed, it's being remembered."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"I've always believed that one woman's success can only come at the expense of another woman's failure."

"The body must be dressed. I hope unrestrained and im not religious, I am against restrictive clothing."

"Perfection is not just about control, it's also about letting go."