Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotations

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

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

We only do well the things we like doing.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

- 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.

But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.