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
time shapes assuming
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
jewels tables kingdoms
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.
gratitude animal understanding
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
enjoyment wells
We only do well the things we like doing.
wine training world
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
butterfly butterfly-wings wings
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
husband wife faults
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
friendship best-friend wise
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
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...
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.
wine blue connoisseur
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.