Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes


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


Citations

Colette. My Mother's House and Sido. Translated by Una Vincenzo Troubridge and Enid McLeod, Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, p. 142.

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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Born: January 28, 1873
  • Died: August 3, 1954
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and was also known as a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best remembered for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name.