QUOTES

Quotes by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
- 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
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship."
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not gr..."
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette