Coco Chanel

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

"Taste is the most subjective thing in the world. It should be made objective."

"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. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."

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

"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. But truly, the secret is in knowing when to stop."

"I made my own success, and I owe it to no one but myself."

"Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you're going to wear and own it."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"They say that I'm difficult. What they mean is that I'm honest."

"I want to be cremated. I think being put in the ground in a coffin is wasteful. All that material, the space it takes up."

"The best things in life are eternal: love, beauty, and a well-made jacket."

"Fashion is something that comes from within you. You can't buy style."

"Women think about being in love far more than men do. But holding hands, above all, is a feast."

"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."

"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

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

"One is never too old to reinvent oneself. The question is whether you have the courage to try."

"I love living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all still there persisted, underneath it all, a great joy in simply being alive."

"You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself inside out."

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

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

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Everything else is just noise."

"The most important thing is your health. Everything else is secondary."

"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not have would come to me."

"Never lose your cool, because that's when you've already lost everything."

"A woman needs rouges, lipsticks, and nail polish because PS: she needs to feel like herself."

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance, yet few understand that simplicity requires more work than complexity."