Werk
Mitsou
ColetteMitsou
ColetteColette Berühmte Zitate
Mitsou, ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles
„Wo die Moral sich nicht überall einnistet. Ich habe einen Sittenrichter geboren.“
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
Colette: Zitate auf Englisch
“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”
L'Envers du music hall (Music Hall Sidelights), "On Tour" (1913)
In Gigi, and Selected Writings (1963).
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
My Mother’s House, "The Priest on the Wall" (1922)
“We only do well the things we like doing.”
Prisons and Paradise (1932)
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
New York World-Telegram and Sun (1961)
Barks and Purrs
Kontext: Toby-Dog: It seems to me that of the two of us it's you they make the most of, and yet you do all the grumbling.
Kiki-The-Demure: A dog's logic, that! The more one gives the more I demand.
Toby-Dog: That's wrong. It's indiscreet.
Kiki-The-Demure: Not at all. I have a right to everything.
Toby-Dog: To everything? And I?
Kiki-The-Demure: I don't imagine you lack anything, do you?
Toby-Dog: Ah, I don't know. Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come...
Kiki-The-Demure: And then what dreadful thing happens?
Toby-Dog: You know very well! Inevitably, at that moment She appears, carrying a bottle with horrible yellow stuff floating in it — Castor Oil!
Freedom (1908)
Quelle: Oeuvres complètes en seize volumes
Colette Chéri
Quelle: La Fin de Chéri (The Last of Cheri) (1926)
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”
Chance Acquaintances (1952)
Quelle: Chance Acquaintances and Julie de Carneilhan
“What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!”
“Sido and I”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
