"We only do well the things we like…" — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"We only do well the things we like doing."
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80 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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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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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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Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like…
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More Enjoyment Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above…
— Honore de Balzac
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
— Joseph Addison
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment…
— Walter Benjamin
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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
— Daniel Boone
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man.…
— Damon Albarn
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The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act…
— William Jennings Bryan
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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