# Quote — Colette, Gigi

> Boredom helps one to make decisions.

- Author: [Colette](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colette.md)
- Book: [Gigi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colette/gigi.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colette#Gigi_(1945)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/colette/gigi/boredom-helps-one

## More from this book

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colette/gigi/dont-ever-wear.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colette/gigi/a-pretty-little.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colette/gigi/in-the-matter.md)