Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Colettewas a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Her best known work, the novella Gigi, was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. She was also a mime, an actress and a journalist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1873
CountryFrance
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette quotes about
failure light glowing
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
home house matter
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
women food memorable
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
negativity despair routine
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...
pain men suffering
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
death determination lying
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
voice joy lovely
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
time cat funny-cat
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
wall wine being-alone
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.
temptation tempted objects
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
want
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
dog cat animal
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
loss bouquets treasure
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
wine blue connoisseur
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.