96 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

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.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.