Victoria > Victoria's Quotes

“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
― Madonna

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
― Cher

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
― Barbra Streisand

“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
― Coco Chanel

“There's no such thing as the perfect soulmate. If you meet someone and you think they're perfect, you better run as fast as you can in the other direction. 'Cos your soulmate is the person that pushes all your buttons, pisses you off on a regular basis, and makes you face your shit.”
― Madonna

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
― Coco Chanel

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
― Coco Chanel

“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
― Coco Chanel

“A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
― Coco Chanel

“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
― Coco Chanel

“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
― Coco Chanel

“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

“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
― Coco Chanel , Chanel

“Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.”
― Coco Chanel

“I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
― Coco Chanel

“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
― Coco Chanel

“There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
― Coco Chanel

“Be classy. Anything but trashy.”
― Coco Chanel

“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
― Coco Chanel

“Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.”
― Coco Chanel

“A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones”
― Cher

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
― Bette Davis

“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.”
― Bette Davis

“I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.”
― Bette Davis

“It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.”
― Bette Davis

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
― Bette Davis