One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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.
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

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Writing only leads to more writing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette