49 Quotations by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- 1. A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trad ...

- 2. Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of volupt ...

- 3. And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

- 4. As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even onc ...

- 5. Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

- 6. But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friend ...

- 7. Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are b ...

- 8. Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, ...

- 9. Girls usually have a paper mache face on their wedding day.

- 10. Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds.

- 11. I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I s ...

- 12. I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I n ...

- 13. In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

- 14. Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignifi ...

- 15. It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

- 16. It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

- 17. It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...

- 18. It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits ...

- 19. It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then ...

- 20. January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's f ...

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