Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Colettewas a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Her best known work, the novella Gigi, was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. She was also a mime, an actress and a journalist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1873
CountryFrance
loss bouquets treasure
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
lying cat long
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.
love jealous smell
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
sex clothes sensual
When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
years age growing
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.
wall wine being-alone
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.
happiness happy wise
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
inspirational teacher appreciation
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
time cat funny-cat
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
writing judging down-and
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.
family children parenting
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.