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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.
— Hemant Mehta
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
— John Steinbeck
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.
— John Quincy Adams
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man.
- Adam Black — Karen Marie Moning
- Adam Black — Karen Marie Moning
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette