Quotes By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

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.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

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

Sit down and 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.

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.