Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Hope costs nothing.
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Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.