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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
- Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- 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.
- It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
- Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
- One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
- The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
- 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.
- Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
- What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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