Colette Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Colette
Colette Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have lived ten years of wild rovings, of conquests and discoveries, in those woods; the day when I have to leave them my heart will be very heavy.
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
Her nature is like a demonstrative cat's; she is delicate, acutely sensitive to cold, and incredibly caressing in her ways.
I heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too familiar.
There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
I went to collect the few personal belongings which ... I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
It is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers, weaves the garland.
Do not think, as you read this, that I am painting my own portrait. Be patient, it is only my model.
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner ...
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved.