Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

– and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven’t yet said all we wanted to say to each other… May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

Time Flies

Together

Years

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

Heaven

Mother

Tree

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Childhood

Happiness

Preparation

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

Animal

Gratitude

Understanding

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Equality

Giving Up

Men

Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

Beautiful

Fashion

Girl

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Artist

Hats

Real

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

Age

Three

Years

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

Dirty

Dry

Iron

beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

Beautiful

Blue

Sweet

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Aging

Animal

Appreciation

Artist

Assuming

Beautiful

Being Alone

Blessed

Blue

Bouquets

Breakup

Broken Heart

Cat

Change

Childhood

Connoisseur

Cooking

Cost

Death

Determination

Dirty

Discovery

Distance

Dog

Dream

Dry

Equality

Faith

Fall

Fashion

Feet

Firsts

Flower

Food

Forget

Funny Cat

Girl

Giving Up

Goes On

Gratitude

Happiness

Hats

Heart

Heartbroken

Heaven

Inspirational

Intelligent

Iron

Jealousy

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Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

– and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven’t yet said all we wanted to say to each other… May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

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