Quote

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Coco Chanel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1883
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: January 10
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel
Gabrielle Chanel
Gabrielle Chasnel
xxx
Doesn
Happens
Done
Hens
Work
Laying
Gentleness
Eggs
Unless
Happen

More quotes by Coco Chanel

Image
Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
Coco Chanel
Image
A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
Coco Chanel
Image
Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
Coco Chanel
Image
Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
Coco Chanel
Image
A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
Coco Chanel
Image
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Coco Chanel
Image
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
Coco Chanel
Image
I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.
Coco Chanel
Image
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.
Coco Chanel
Image
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu
Coco Chanel
Image
Capel said, Remember that you're a woman. All too often I forgot that.
Coco Chanel
Image
Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel
Image
That's what fame is: solitude.
Coco Chanel
Image
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
Coco Chanel
Image
Those who create are rare those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
Image
Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young
Coco Chanel
Image
True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
Coco Chanel
Image
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
Coco Chanel
Image
A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.
Coco Chanel
Image
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.
Coco Chanel