Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Her best known work, the novella Gigi (1944), was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. She was also a mime, an actress and a journalist.

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

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

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally and politely put parents in their place.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

You will do foolish things but do them with enthusiasm.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

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

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

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

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

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

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.