Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Quotes (25 quotations)
1. A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
2. A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
3. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
4. I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
5. I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
6. I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
7. If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
8. In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
9. It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
10. It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
11. January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
12. Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
13. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
14. Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
15. The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
16. The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
17. The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
18. The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
19. There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
20. Total absence of humor renders life impossible. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
21. Truffles must come to the table in their own stock [and] as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine-if you have never visited it-the desolate kingdom where it rules. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
22. We only do well the things we like doing. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
23. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
24. Writing only leads to more writing. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
25. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
2. A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
3. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
4. I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
5. I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
6. I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
7. If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
8. In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
9. It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
10. It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
11. January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
12. Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
13. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
14. Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
15. The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
16. The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
17. The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
18. The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
19. There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
20. Total absence of humor renders life impossible. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
21. Truffles must come to the table in their own stock [and] as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine-if you have never visited it-the desolate kingdom where it rules. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
22. We only do well the things we like doing. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
23. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
24. Writing only leads to more writing. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
25. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
