96 Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

I have found my voice again and the art of using it...

I want nothing from love, in short, but love.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

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

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.