Elegant Woman Quotes

• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Women, Dresses

  "Can you be too … well-dressed?" by Daisy Buchanan, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2013.

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• Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

  Elie Saab

  Confidence, Attitude, Women

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• Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Style

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Real, Life Changing

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• Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Success, Hater

  "You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.

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• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women". Book by Armand Eisen (p. 15), 1992.

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• Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Reality, Please Me

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• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Greatness, Perfection

  "Harper's Bazaar" Magazine, 1923.

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• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Girl, Strong Women

  "The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman". Book by Karen Karbo, 2009.

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• Fashion changes, but style endures.

  Coco Chanel

  Change, Fashion, Life Changing

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• That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Hate, Heart

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The works of Henry Fielding, esq: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.152

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• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Funny Love, Witty, Money

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

  Coco Chanel

  Coquetry, Elegant

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• Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Weapons, Coquetry

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• Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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

  Coco Chanel

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Thinking

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• You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

  Coco Chanel

  Life, Fashion, Might

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• It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

  Coco Chanel

  Destiny, Fashion And Style

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• You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Shoes, Icons

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• The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Quality, Moral, Common

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

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Courage, Thinking

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• 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.

  Coco Chanel

  Destiny, House, Serendipity

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• I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

  Coco Chanel

  Lying, Fighting, Vulgarity Is

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