Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Writing only leads to more writing.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette