Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette quotes and sayings page 3 (novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 38 we have.

“Writing only leads to more writing.”

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

“Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.”

“A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.”

“The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”

“A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.”

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

“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.”

“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”

“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.”