Colette Quotes
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.
My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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.
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.
Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place.
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
Are you committed to your highest vision for your life or are you just satisfied to dream?
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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.
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.