Colette Quotes
Most popular Colette Quotes
![Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Colette quote.](/img/q/76/18576A-be-happy-its-one-way-of-being-wise-colette.png)
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
![Total absence of humor renders life impossible. - Colette quote.](/img/q/49/33049A-total-absence-of-humor-renders-life-impossible-colette.png)
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
![Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. - Colette quote.](/img/q/58/18858A-our-perfect-companions-never-have-fewer-than-four-feet-colette.png)
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
![You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette quote.](/img/q/43/13743A-you-will-do-foolish-things-but-do-them-with-enthusiasm-colette.png)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
![One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. - Colette quote.](/img/q/90/25690A-one-keeps-forgetting-old-age-up-very-brink-grave-colette.png)
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
![What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. - Colette quote.](/img/q/97/18597A-what-a-wonderful-life-ive-had-i-only-wish-id-colette.png)
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
![Jealousy is the only evil we endure without becoming accustomed to it. - Colette quote.](/img/q/02/20802A-jealousy-is-the-only-evil-we-endure-without-becoming-accustomed-colette.png)
Jealousy is the only evil we endure without becoming accustomed to it.
![With jealousy, one has no time to be bored, and hardly time to grow old. - Colette quote.](/img/q/03/20803A-with-jealousy-one-has-no-time-be-bored-hardly-time-colette.png)
With jealousy, one has no time to be bored, and hardly time to grow old.
![Love comes disguised as a thunderbolt and often vanishes at the same pace. - Colette quote.](/img/q/26/35126A-love-comes-disguised-as-a-thunderbolt-often-vanishes-at-same-colette.png)
Love comes disguised as a thunderbolt and often vanishes at the same pace.
![It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. - Colette quote.](/img/q/48/17148A-it-is-wise-to-apply-the-oil-refined-politeness-mechanism-colette.png)
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
![The seduction emanating from a person of uncertain or dissimulated sex is powerful. - Colette quote.](/img/q/85/25985A-the-seduction-emanating-from-a-person-uncertain-or-dissimulated-sex-colette.png)
The seduction emanating from a person of uncertain or dissimulated sex is powerful.
![It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship. - Colette quote.](/img/q/97/23197A-it-is-prudent-to-pour-the-oil-delicate-politeness-upon-colette.png)
It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship.
![When a man wants to deceive you, he'll find a way of escape through the tiniest of holes. - Colette quote.](/img/q/63/23763A-when-a-man-wants-to-deceive-you-hell-find-way-colette.png)
When a man wants to deceive you, he'll find a way of escape through the tiniest of holes.
![A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. - Colette quote.](/img/q/43/26043A-a-kindly-gesture-bestowed-by-us-animal-arouses-prodigies-understanding-colette.png)
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
![A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. - Colette quote.](/img/q/16/50716A-a-woman-who-thinks-she-is-intelligent-demands-same-rights-colette.png)
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
![Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness. - Colette quote.](/img/q/17/33017A-humility-has-its-origin-in-an-awareness-unworthiness-sometimes-too-colette.png)
Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.
![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. - Colette quote.](/img/q/59/24759A-sit-down-and-put-down-everything-that-comes-into-your-colette.png)
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.
![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. - Colette quote.](/img/q/04/18804A-there-are-days-when-solitude-is-heady-wine-that-intoxicates-colette.png)
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.
![Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, will hesitate, demur, recoil where love, good old blustering love, bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle. - Colette quote.](/img/q/47/35247A-friendship-which-is-of-its-nature-delicate-thing-fastidious-slow-colette.png)
Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, will hesitate, demur, recoil where love, good old blustering love, bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.
![There are days when solitude, for someone of my age, is a heady wine which 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. - Colette quote.](/img/q/45/39945A-there-are-days-when-solitude-for-someone-my-age-is-colette.png)
There are days when solitude, for someone of my age, is a heady wine which 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.
![Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime—I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness. - Colette quote.](/img/q/21/18621A-is-suffering-so-very-serious-i-have-come-doubt-it-colette.png)
Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime—I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.