# Gigi

- Author: [Colette](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colette.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/colette/gigi

## Quotes

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

> 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.

> Boredom helps one to make decisions.

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

> 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.