Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Age: 81 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 28
Died: 1954
Died: August 3
Actor
Ghostwriter
Journalist
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Montagne-sur-Loing
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Every
Smoking
Time
Male
Males
Inject
Excuse
Smokers
Female
Glowing
Failure
Tobacco
Lives
Idleness
Light
Cigarette
More quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Writing only leads to more writing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, 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
