Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We only do well the things we like doing.
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
Well
Things
Like
Enjoyment
Wells
More quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There are no ordinary cats.
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
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Writing only leads to more writing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
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
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
