10 Quotes By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on age

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on equality

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 on freedom

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on friendship

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on humor

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on jealousy

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on jealousy

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on life

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 on sad

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on wisdom