Colet Quotes & Sayings

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. — Louise Colet

I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people. — Scott McClellan

Heather turned her voice up full volume. "Gabriel Michael Archer, wake up this minute!"
With his eyes still closed, he grumbled, "My middle name isn't Michael."
"I don't care. Wake up! — Chelsea Fine

To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and the urge to go places: the introversion, interest directed within oneself toward one's own inner life of vigorous thought and fancy; and extroversion, interest directed outward, toward the external world of people and tangible values. — Vladimir Nabokov

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go. — Louise Colet

Coquetry is the art of successful deception. — Louise Colet

You know, I've been almost kidnapped and killed more times in the last thirty-six hours than anyone in history, and yet here I am trying to help you work through your personal issues and that Claire ... that is why I always get the last cookie, — S.L.J. Shortt

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved. — Louise Colet

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. — Louise Colet

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases! — Louise Colet

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins. — Sydney J. Harris

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. — Louise Colet

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners. — Louise Colet

The laws of decency enforce themselves. — Louise Colet

[Louise Colet was a p]roto-feminist who committed the sin of wanting to make someone else happy. — Julian Barnes

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more. — Robbie Robertson

Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. — Oliver Cromwell

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination. — Louise Colet

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion. — Louise Colet

He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me ... — Jean Plaidy

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. — Louise Colet