Colette

Quotes

1. Don’t ever wear artistic jewellry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.

2. 

   A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men... nine men out of ten are superstitious, nineteen out of twenty believe in the evil eye, and ninety-eight out of a hundred are afraid of spiders. They forgive us — oh! for many things, but not for the absence in us of their own feelings.

3. 

   Boredom helps one to make decisions.

4. 

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

5. 

   On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us — ah! what a dream, to live in that! — the other stifles us at the first breath.

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