Gabrielle

Famous quotes containing the word gabrielle:

“Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

“Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

“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.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)