Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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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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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.