Quotes of Colette - somelinesforyou

“ It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. ”

- Colette

“ It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. ”

- Colette

“ Total absence of humor renders life impossible. ”

- Colette

“ Total absence of humor renders life impossible. ”

- Colette

“ The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. ”

- Colette

“ What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. ”

- Colette

“ It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ”

- 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. ”

- Colette

“ The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. ”

- Colette

“ Hope costs nothing. ”

- Colette

“ Time spent with a cat is never wasted. ”

- Colette

“ It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses. ”

- Colette

“ You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ”

- Colette

“ When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes. ”

- 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. ”

- Colette

“ What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. ”

- Colette

“ It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”

- Colette

“ What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. ”

- Colette

“ If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting. ”

- Colette

“ You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ”

- Colette

“ No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. ”

- Colette

“ Hope costs nothing. ”

- Colette

“ Hope costs nothing. ”

- Colette

“ 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." (Casual Chance, 1964) ”

- Colette

“ The writer who loses his selfdoubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. ”

- Colette

“ Time spent with a cat is never wasted. ”

- Colette

“ How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor! ”

- Colette

“ There are no ordinary cats. ”

- Colette

“ When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg. ”

- Colette

“ To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ”

- Colette
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