Top 100 Quotes About Colette
#1. I don't understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It's not like it's a kidney!" Colette laughed.
Kevin Kwan
#2. Colette looked at me and smiled. It struck me in that moment that Amber's mouth had been just like her mother's, and suddenly I was fifteen again, and in love again, and devastated.
Matthew Crow
#3. It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image. - Colette
Judith Viorst
#4. And there's a woman dressed in white, who's nice to hear, and soft to touch, and she whispers, 'Colette, I love you very much' I have a place where no one is ost, and where no one cries, because crying is not aloud, on my Castle In the Clouds
Victor Hugo
#6. Go right to the solution so that there won't be a problem.
-Colette
Colette Parrino
#7. The brooch was a cheap bauble, but one with powerful sentimental value. Not that Irene was the sentimental type, aside from the smother-love she lavished on her toy poodle, but she'd known Colette her whole life. They'd grown up in the same grimy apartment house in Bay Ridge and had at one time
Pamela Burford
#8. Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist.
Truman Capote
#9. My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
Eddie Redmayne
#10. I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.
Liz Goldwyn
#11. It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.
Diane Drake
#12. Colette picked up a piece of the bread and stared at it suspiciously. "This toast feels raw," she said. "Is it safe to eat raw toast?" "Of course not," Hugo said. "I bet that baby is trying to poison us." "Actually,
Lemony Snicket
#13. Although Guy was thirty-five he was still working as a model, and certain of his more ironic and cultured friends called him, as the dying Proust had been called by Colette, 'our young man.
Edmund White
#14. Love ... is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other.
Colette
#15. A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
Colette
#16. 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
#17. Trying to restructure a perfectly structured script is like trying to fit in a size four jeans when you're a size ten.
Colette Freedman
#18. Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place.
Colette Baron Reid
#19. It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long as some childish physical cowardice or some religious hope keeps her from the suicide that offers her a way out.
Colette
#20. I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds ... and the language is a bit more "colorful".
Colette Freedman
#21. I went to collect the few personal belongings which ... I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
Colette
#22. Women need to do more. We need to find out what it is we're afraid of, and go beyond.
Colette Dowling
#23. Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
Colette
#24. Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss ...
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#25. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
#26. You were listening at the door, Gigi!"
"No, Grandmamma."
"Yes, you had your ear to the keyhole. You must never listen at key-holes. You don't hear properly and so you get things all wrong.
Colette
#27. 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.
Colette
#28. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Colette
#29. Writing only leads to more writing.
Colette
#30. After you, probably anyone can have me who wants me. A woman, many women. But never another cat.
Colette
#31. God, I love spending time with you." His smile eases me. "Don't get mad at me, but I'm going to say something and I have no apologies for saying it." I raise my eyebrows in curiosity. "You look fucking hot in that bikini.
Jeannine Colette
#32. The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench and optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.
Colette
#33. 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
#35. And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner ...
Colette
#36. I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres.
Colette Freedman
#37. Left to Tell reminds us that we are all sons and daughters of God; that with faith, miracles will always appear; and that forgiveness is the key to freedom. A must-read for all of us in these troubled times.
Colette Baron Reid
#38. 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
#39. People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.
Colette
#40. One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.
Colette Freedman
#41. The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for Madame Peloux, and a tiny tie-pin for you
Colette
#42. Because of the way society sets them up, women never again experience the need to develop independence - until some crisis in later life explodes their complacency, showing them how sadly helpless and undeveloped they've allowed themselves to be.
Colette Dowling
#44. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Colette
#45. study after study also directly links the intake of excess sugar to an increased risk for cancer, diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, eye diseases, osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, and other inflammatory diseases.
Colette Heimowitz
#46. Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.
Colette Inez
#47. Being a writer is an amazing job, but we're all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.
Colette Freedman
#48. Are you committed to your highest vision for your life or are you just satisfied to dream?
Colette Baron Reid
#49. What an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment.
Colette
#51. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#52. Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.
Colette Baron Reid
#53. If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
Colette
#54. I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
Colette
#55. If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.
Saint Colette
#56. Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
Colette
#57. My son, be rich and live your own life! Tell yourself that you're the incarnation of an ancient aristocracy. Model yourself on the feudal barons. You're a warrior
Colette
#58. I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest.
Colette
#59. A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#60. There are no ordinary cats.
Colette
#61. We only do well the things we like doing.
Colette
#63. I have nothing to say to men and never had. Judging from the little time I've spent with them, their usual conversation is sickening. Besides, they bore me. I believe," he hesitated, then concluded, "I believe I don't understand men.
Colette
#64. I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#65. It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#66. 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.
Colette
#67. My Moms left the state and she doesn't stay in touch. Sometimes I wonder about her story, how she got to where she hated herself so much that she taught it to me.
Colette D. Winlock
#69. That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
Colette
#70. In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Colette
#72. I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#73. It's that knowledge that sustains you through tough times, the certainty that you will always be less without each other than you are together.
Colette McBeth
#74. One can't write of love while making love.
Colette
#75. - and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other ... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
Colette
#76. They exchanged looks full of mischievous security.
Colette
#78. Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. For it is the only suffering that we endure without ever becoming used to it.
Colette
#79. The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#80. She (her mother) noticed that I was prettier than I was at home. Thus do girls change color in the warmth of masculine desire, whether they are fifteen or thirty.
Colette
#81. Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say ... what has to be said?
Colette
#82. I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.
Colette Freedman
#83. Two o'clock already! High time for a woman of letters who has turned out badly to go to sleep.
Colette
#84. I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#85. I was changing. Slowly, if you like, but what matter? To change is the great thing.
Colette
#86. Beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
Colette
#87. January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#89. The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Colette
#90. When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
Colette
#91. Do I have a separate room? Don't I make love to you well?"
She hesitated, smiling with exquisite suspicion. "Do you call that love, Fred?"
"There are other words for it, but you wouldn't appreciate them.
Colette
#92. I heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too familiar.
Colette
#93. My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image
Saint Colette
#94. By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer.
Colette
#95. Do not think, as you read this, that I am painting my own portrait. Be patient, it is only my model.
Colette
#96. Be happy.
It's one way of being wise.
Colette
#97. A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#98. A good book is a portal that will take you anywhere in the world.
Colette
#99. I have found my voice again and the art of using it ...
Colette
#100. There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.
Colette
