If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBooks, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI have found my voice again and the art of using it.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThat lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEOur perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETotal absence of humor renders life impossible.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are days when solitude, for someone my age, 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEDon’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE