Quote

I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, better the devil you know than the devil you don't. In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

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
Popular
Across
Devil
Wisdom
Annals
Remember
Westminster
Better
Sayings
Come
Maxims
Favourite

More quotes by Coco Chanel

Image
Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.
Coco Chanel
Image
The right ingredients can create a legend.
Coco Chanel
Image
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
Coco Chanel
Image
Beauty comes when fashion succeeds
Coco Chanel
Image
Fashion changes, Style remains
Coco Chanel
Image
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Coco Chanel
Image
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
Image
There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.
Coco Chanel
Image
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
Image
Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!
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
Image
Keep your heel, head and standards high.
Coco Chanel
Image
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel
Image
If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
Coco Chanel
Image
Great loves too must be endured.
Coco Chanel
Image
Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
Coco Chanel
Image
I imposed black it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around
Coco Chanel
Image
I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
Coco Chanel
Image
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel
Image
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period
Coco Chanel