Colette: Herring

Colette was 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi. Explore interesting quotes on herring.

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“Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.”

Chéri (1920) pt. 2

“When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”

Claudine and Annie (1903)

“I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.”

Colette book The Pure and the Impure

Source: The Pure and the Impure

“It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.”

Journey for Myself (1971) “Beauties,” Quatre Saisons (c. 1928).

“Kiki-The-Demure: Once when I was little She tried to give me castor oil. I scratched and bit her so, she never tried again. Ha! She must have thought she held the devil between her knees. I squirmed, blew fire through my nostrils, multiplied my twenty claws by a hundred, my teeth by one thousand, and finally — disappeared as if by magic.
Toby-Dog: I wouldn't dare do that. You see, I love her. I love her enough to forgive her even the torture of the bath.”

Barks and Purrs