Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

France, Novelist
January 28, 1873 – August, 3, 1954.

Colette was a French mime, actress, journalist and novelist, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Collette was widely known for her 1944 novella Gigi (1944), which subsequently was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name.

- 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!

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Time
- Terrible
- Respite
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Books
- Letters
- Presence
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Joy
- Voice
- Weep
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Artist
- Lifetime
- Fellow
You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Thinking
- Foolish
Writing only leads to more writing.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Writing
- Leads
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Plans