Latest Coco Chanel Quotes from Interviews

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• As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

  Coco Chanel

  Girl, Reading, Age

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• As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

  Coco Chanel

  Wish, World, This World

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• After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Determination, Events

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• My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

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  Hero, Heart, World

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• I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

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  Thinking, Done, Stood Up

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• 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

  Devil, Remember, Favourite

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• I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

  Coco Chanel

  Paris, Eulogy, Liberation

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• A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

  Coco Chanel

  Warrior, Long, Leaving

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• One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

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  Humanity, Shaving, Should

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• Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

  Coco Chanel

  Mother, Heart, Men

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• If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

  Coco Chanel

  Boys, Gone, Nazi

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• I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

  Coco Chanel

  Ideals, Concessions

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• 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.

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  Boys, Long Ago, Moral

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• Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

  Coco Chanel

  War, Winning, Principles

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• I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

  Coco Chanel

  Littles, Arthur, Knows

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• What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Lasts, Scoundrels

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