Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

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.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

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

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.