black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Related Topics

Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Forget Grave Old
Books, 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 COLETTE

Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Fingers Touch Yourself
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Love Myself Short
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Anxiety Endurance New Year Ourselves Production Theatre
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Life Myself Realize Wonderful
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Fools Thinking Yourself
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Absence Shape Thinking Time True
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Himself Time Traveling True
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Appetite Myself Professional Training World
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Humble Jealous Low Sight
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
You 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 COLETTE

Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
We only do well the things we like doing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Passionate Work
There 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 COLETTE

Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Absence Humor Impossible Life
Is 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 COLETTE

Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
I 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 COLETTE

Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes