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Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
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...
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Writing only leads to more writing.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette