96 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.

I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

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.

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...

When she raises her eyelids, it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.

The word ‘pure’ has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it – in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.