Coco Chanel

"If you were born lucky, you don't have to be good."

"Trendy is the last stage before tacky."

"I don't do fashion, I am fashion."

"The secret to my success? I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done."

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."

"Some women think by not wearing makeup they are being natural and beautiful. But a painted face does not make one less beautiful."

"Reputation is a consequence, not an outcome."

"My life didn't please me, so I created my life."

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."

"Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, a sort of splattering of their emotional makeup across the furniture."

"The most important thing is to find your own voice."

"I only love those people who desire me."

"The hardest thing in the world to do is to be your own person."

"A woman can say what she wants, do what she wants, look how she wants."

"The right to be forgotten is the right to reinvent yourself."

"Elegance is refusal."

"The most precious thing in life is not what you have, it's who you are."

"I have no regrets. I did everything. I was who I was meant to be."

"Fashion is the form in which we communicate who we want to be."

"Luxury should be comfortable. If it is not comfortable, it is not luxury."

"I did not have time to waste on despair."

"A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting."

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

"I have loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me that has always been enough."

"You don't need a royal flush to have a winning hand."

"I prefer my cheeks to my footsteps."

"It's not tragedy that makes headlines, it's happiness."

"The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart."

"I've never wanted to be anyone but myself, and I think that saved me."

"Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity."