If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWhen she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are no ordinary cats.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIs 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEOne keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESmokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETime spent with a cat is never wasted.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTENo one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESo now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou 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 COLETTEThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEJealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWe only do well the things we like doing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE