It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette More Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette More Quotes From Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette fashion girl beautiful I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette heartbroken broken-heart breakup I want nothing from love, in short, but love. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette want But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette heart people thinking 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 waste girl needs 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 flower memories art If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette funny-marriage men interesting At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette iron dry dirty Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette cigarette-smoke failure light A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men... Sidonie Gabrielle Colette business littles men 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 pain suffering men A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette mother tree heaven I have found my voice again and the art of using it. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette voice found art Total absence of humor renders life impossible. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette laughter humor happiness In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette matter house home 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 negativity routine despair beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water Sidonie Gabrielle Colette blue beautiful sweet That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now! Sidonie Gabrielle Colette lovely-voice should joy I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette training wine world 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 distance discovery night
