Zitate von Colette
Colette
Geburtstag: 28. Januar 1873
Todesdatum: 3. August 1954
Andere Namen: Coletteová, Sidonie G. Colette
Colette war eine französische Schriftstellerin, Varietékünstlerin und Journalistin. Sie bekam als erste Frau in Frankreich ein Staatsbegräbnis. Wikipedia
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Zitate Colette
„Wo die Moral sich nicht überall einnistet. Ich habe einen Sittenrichter geboren.“
— Colette
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
Mitsou, ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles
Mitsou, ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles
— Colette
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!
— Colette
Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
„In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.“
— Colette
The Photographer’s Wife
Gigi (1945)
„It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.“
— Colette
Quelle: Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932), Ch. 9
„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)
„Don’t ever wear artistic jewellry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.“
— Colette
Aunt Alicia
Gigi (1945)
— Colette
Barks and Purrs
— Colette
"The Captain", Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
„Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.“
— Colette
Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)
— Colette
In Gigi, and Selected Writings (1963).
