Colette's most beautiful quotes
The top 3 according to 28 votes from people: A total absence of humour makes life impossible. · But what would I have done with a life that was nothing but roses? · What you find is not always worth what you leave behind.. (Updated Mar 7, 2021.)
"A total absence of humour makes life impossible", "What would I have done with a life that was nothing but roses?" and the big house that only smiled on one side: Colette's most quoted lines, from My Mother's House to Chance Acquaintances and her music reviews, with their source.
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Top 12
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A total absence of humour makes life impossible.
Chance Acquaintances (1940).
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2
But what would I have done with a life that was nothing but roses?
My Apprenticeships (1936).
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3
What you find is not always worth what you leave behind.
Chance Acquaintances (1940).
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4
A woman fighting her own pain is a sight one may call edifying.
Chance Acquaintances (1940).
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5
A big, solemn, forbidding house with its orphanage doorbell… a house that only smiled on one side.
My Mother's House (1922).
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6
A conjecture seems unique to us because we are not subtle enough to see that it mirrors… an identical old coincidence.
Chance Acquaintances (1940).
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7
Mlle Dangès warbles such a deplorable aria from Les Huguenots that she keeps her eyes shut the whole time so as not to see what she is singing.
At the Concert (1903).
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8
I love feminine courage, its ingenuity in organizing a wounded life.
Chance Acquaintances (1940).
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9
In those days, chocolate was made with cocoa, sugar and vanilla.
My Mother's House (1922).
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10
The garden spiders, because of the cooler nights, came back in the evening to the toy shed and lined up quietly on the ceiling.
Ripening Seed (1923).
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11
The Viscountess de Trédern sang Ève as best she could. Her best was the enemy of the good.
At the Concert (1903).
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12
The wisteria that spills from my childhood garden over the rue des Vignes.
For a Herbarium (1948).
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