Colette Quotes

About Colette

Life: 1873 - 1954

Colette was the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (January 28, 1873 - August 3, 1954). She is best known, at least in the English-speaking world, for her novel Gigi, which provided the plot for a Lerner & Loewe musical film and stage musical.

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Quotations

My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other.
~ Colette
- The Old Lady and the Bear

Argument;

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
~ Colette

Cats;

There are no ordinary cats.
~ Colette

Cats;

One keeps on forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grace.
~ Colette
- My mother and Illness in My Mother's House, 1922

Age;

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
~ Colette

Absence;

Hope costs nothing.
~ Colette

Hope;

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
~ Colette

Insomnia;