Sidonie Gabrielle Colette - Best Quotes

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.

Equality

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Age

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

Hot Quotes

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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.

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

Jealousy is not at all low but it catches us humbled and bowed down at first sight.

The lovesick the betrayed and the jealous all smell alike.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

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