Top 38 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

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

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.

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.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.