Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

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

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

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.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

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.