You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
-
-
There are no ordinary cats.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
Hope costs nothing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
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 -
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
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 -
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE