Colette Quotes

  • Colette: My name is Gabrielle Colette and the hand that holds the pen writes history.

  • Colette: I Can Read You Like The Top Line of an Optician's Chart.

  • Colette: Did you ever feel like you were playing a part, Sido?

    Sido: In what way?

    Colette: As a wife. Or a mother. Like you were just going through with it.

    Sido: Sometimes, as a wife. Never as a mother.

  • Colette: I can read you like the top line of an optician's chart.

  • Colette: It's the hand that holds the pen that writes history

  • Willy: People love to talk. They praise you to your face. Then the moment you turn around there's knives in your back.

  • Willy: Bad theater, it's like dentistry. You're compelled to stay in your chair having your skull drilled until the entire grisly procedure is over.

  • Willy: [taking a stroll in the countryside] I don't know why you're so keen on nature. Animals are vile to each other.

    Colette: Animals are honest at least. They never lie.

    Willy: Yes, my dear. Well, that's because they don't speak.

  • Willy: You're overreacting. This was purely a business decision.

    Colette: Isn't that what our whole marriage has been? Wasn't I the best investment you ever made? No dowry, but my God, she can write for her keep!

  • [last lines]

    Colette: Yes, this is the dangerous, lucid hour. Now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.