Colette Quotes
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.
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.
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.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
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".
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
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.
You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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.
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.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)
As for an authentic villain the real thing the absolute the artist one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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.
Studies show that girls - especially smarter ones - have severe problems in the area of self-confid
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
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?
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.
