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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
French
Novelist
About the author
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Time
#Suffering
#Waste
#Occupations
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Poor
#Preparation
#Childhood
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Pretty
#Men
#Terror
#Spiders
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Man
#Woman
#Rights
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,
French
Novelist
#Artist
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,
French
Novelist
#Heart
#Past
#Country
#Name
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Being
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Time
#Light
#Idleness
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Will
#Pity
#Girls
#Waste
#Moments
#Disillusionment
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Time
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Men
#Woman
#Rights
There are days when solitude 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,
French
Novelist
#Freedom
#Poison
#Wine
#Solitude
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Husbands
#Excess
#Wives
#Faults
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Silence
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Humor
#Absence
Writing only leads to more writing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Writing
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,
French
Novelist
#Writer
#Pity
#Worth
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Old
#Pity
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Will
#Enthusiasm
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Life
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Children
#Parents
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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Love
#Past
#Present
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Absence
#Ugliness
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Sincerity
#Modesty
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Friendship
#Oil
#Politeness
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Evil
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#First
#Sight
#Jealousy
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Feet
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Man
#Friends
#Proof
#Devotion
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Temptation
#Value
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#First
#Choice
#Dream
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Old
#Age
#Grave
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette,
French
Novelist
#Time