"Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is…" — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either."
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80 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette has 80 quotes on this site.
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I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for…
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Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a…
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable…
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the…
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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from…
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But…
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,…
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True love stories never have endings.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have…
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked…
— Honore de Balzac
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!…
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I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
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