Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise…

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave…

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I…

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others…

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship…

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner…

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike…

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent…

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at…

Total absence of humor renders life impossible…