Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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.

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

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

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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.

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

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