“In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.”

“A beautiful woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanour. All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.”

“And there's a woman dressed in white, who's nice to hear, and soft to touch, and she whispers, 'Colette, I love you very much' I have a place where no one is ost, and where no one cries, because crying is not aloud, on my Castle In the Clouds”

“There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.”

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

“It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His destiny was entering upon the unknown. ”

“The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.”