Colette frasi celebri
“Non è la morte l'estrema speranza di una vita cui si è rifiutato un amore?”
Origine: L'ingenua libertina, p. 190
“Una delle cose migliori dell'amore è riconoscere il passo dell'uomo che sale le scale.”
Origine: Da Journal à rebours, 1941.
“Farai delle sciocchezze, ma falle con entusiasmo.”
Origine: Rivolta a sua figlia; citato da Hope Johnson sul New York World-Telegram & Sun, 28 aprile 1961.
Colette Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Da una lettera a Francis Jammes, aprile 1906; citato in Jean Prieur, Gli animali hanno un'anima, traduzione di Nerina Spicacci, Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma, 2006, p. 45 http://books.google.it/books?id=VneGTjLchuQC&pg=PA45. ISBN 88-272-0828-3
Break of Day
“È saggio applicare l'olio di una raffinata gentilezza ai meccanismi dell'amicizia.”
Origine: Da Le Pur et l'Impur, 1932.
“Noi facciamo bene soltanto le cose che ci piace fare.”
22 luglio 2018, ore 07.48
Origine: [it, https://www.m2o.it/programmi/memories/puntate/memories-del-22-07-2018/, Memories Puntata del 22/07/2018 su m2o Radio, m2o.it]
Colette: Frasi in inglese
“When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
Claudine and Annie (1903)
“I have found my voice again and the art of using it…”
Origine: The Vagabond
“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”
Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted https://books.google.com/books?id=5KMkAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22To+be+astonished+is+one+of+the+surest+ways+of+not+growing+old+too+quickly.%22+intitle%3A%22Earthly+Paradise%22+inauthor%3AColette&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22You+must+not+pity+me+because+my+sixtieth+year+finds+me+still+astonished.+To+be+astonished+is+one+of+the+surest+ways+of+not+growing+old+too+quickly.%22 in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (autobiography, 1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Contesto: You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Origine: Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles”
As quoted in Close to Colette by Maurice Goudeket
Attributed
“Wedding Day”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)
Aunt Alicia
Gigi (1945)
Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)
Journey for Myself (1971) “Beauties,” Quatre Saisons (c. 1928).
Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)
Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
“The South of France”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
“Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.”
Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932)
"The Captain", Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Barks and Purrs
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”
Origine: Le Pur et l'Impur (The Pure and the Impure) (1932), Ch. 9
“In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.”
The Photographer’s Wife
Gigi (1945)
Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps