Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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.

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

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

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.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

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

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.