![]() “Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.” “I don't care what you think of me, I don't think of you at all.” “Don’t be like the rest of them darling.” “Keep your heels, head and standards high.” “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.” These quotes, attributed to Chanel and found via an easy Google Image search, simulates the popular ice-breaker game “two truths and a lie.” What quotes did Chanel really say? What are the frauds? The dupes are only slightly off-base, making it difficult to decode the lies from the truth. ![]() Famous quotes such as, “Good artists copy, great artists steal,” “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” “Life is a journey, not a destination,” are all possibly misattributed, explains an essay published on Quartz. This phenomenon isn’t unique to Chanel or Monroe. They’re prone to inaccuracy in lieu of pull-quotes that roll off the tongue, or are shifted to better align with a given cause or image that we want to project onto the speaker. Like a multi-generational game of broken telephone, quotes get twisted. Truth has a funny way of getting distorted over time. ![]() But it's the truth!"īut…it’s the truth lingers on the screen. "★, because it's the truth… and yet, I don't want to say nude. October 1953, at a photoshoot for Modern Screen. “We may never know when she said the phrase for the first time,” the video states about Monroe’s famous reference to the perfume, going on to cite all the times they have proof it happened: April 7th, 1952, in Life Magazine. The ad, at just over two minutes, makes Monroe a posthumous face of the venerable perfume. Monroe is the subject of the second advertisement in a multi-part campaign, titled “Inside Chanel,” levied by the brand.
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