81 Quotes by Colette

A good book is a portal that will take you anywhere in the world.

If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.

Rien d’ailleurs ne rassure autant qu’un masque.

Live in the moment!

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.

Beautiful? For whom? Why, for myself, of course.

But though love laughs at difference in age, friendship, especially between two women, is more acutely conscious of it.

A woman claims as many native lands as she had happy love affairs, Likewise, she is born under every sky where she recovers from the pain of loving.

Everything that astonished me when I was young astonishes me even more today. The time will never come for me when there are no more discoveries to make. Every morning the world is as new again and I will not cease to flower except through death.