# Coco Chanel's most famous quotes

Fashion going out of fashion, perfume, growing wings, style: Gabrielle Chanel's most repeated lines, with the book that reports them.

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- Dec 14, 2025 · Nicolas L.
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## Top 11

1. **Fashion goes out of fashion. Style never does.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Reported by Daniel Salvatore Schiffer, Métaphysique du dandysme (2013).
2. **A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Reported by Elaine Sciolino, La Seduction (2012).
3. **Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Reported by Karel de la Renaudière, Zalbac Brothers (2013).
4. **It is with what cannot be learnt that one succeeds.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Reported by Sandra Cassati, Coco Chanel pour l'amour des femmes (2009).
5. **I gave women's bodies back their freedom.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Reported by Sandra Cassati (2009).
6. **If you were born without wings, do nothing to stop them from growing.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reported by Hal Vaughan, Sleeping with the Enemy (2012).
7. **When people ask my age, I answer: after 50, it depends on the day.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reported by Sylviane Degunst, Coco Chanel (2008).
8. **Solitude tempered my character, which is bad, bronzed my soul, which is proud, and my body, which is strong.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reported by Maïa Mazaurette, L'art du célibat (2016).
9. **In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reported by Marcel Haedrich, Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1971).
10. **Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reported by Marcel Haedrich (1971).
11. **How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations.

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