Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Wisdom, Happy, Wise

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life, Wish, Wonderful

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Equality, Woman, Same

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

Freedom, Others, Wine

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

Heart, Past, Him

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Almost, Early, Insomnia

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

Love, Sad, Past

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

True, Friends, Loved

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Men, Woman, She

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Foolish, Enthusiasm

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Perfect, Four, Feet

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Jealousy, Jealous, Betrayed

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

Live, Two, Between

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

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Time, Suffering, Call

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Happy, Human, Poor

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Age, Old, Forgetting

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

Judge, Everything, Down

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life, Humor, Impossible

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

Old, Year, Growing

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Often, Faults, Husbands

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Bad, Children, Parents

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Friendship, Wise, Oil

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Value, Temptation, Object

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Flower, Either, Sincerity

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: January 28, 1873

Died: 1954

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