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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
Haie looked round once again and said wrathfully, satisfied and rather mysteriously: Revenge is black-pudding.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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
When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no 'I am'. The 'I am' merges in the Absolute.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.
— Susan Rice
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
— William Howard Taft
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.
— Edward Abbey
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
— 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
Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.
— Steve Hockensmith
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Find your reason and hold it tight.
— Courtney Giardina
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
— 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
Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years.
— Elaine Morgan
The eyes are the nipples of the face
— Anna Faris
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette