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

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

Colette

My Mother’s House, "The Priest on the Wall" (1922)

For Parents , Children , Parent

“We only do well the things we like doing.”

Colette

Prisons and Paradise (1932)

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

Colette

New York World-Telegram and Sun (1961)

“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.”

Colette

Aunt Alicia
Gigi (1945)

Men , Feeling , Forgiveness , Evil

“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”

Colette

“The South of France”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps

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