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You Will Do Foolish Things, But Do Them with Enthusiasm
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette was a French author and woman of letters nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Novelist | French
Born: 1873-01-28 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France
Died: August 3, 1954 in Paris, France
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There are days when solitude 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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette