Chéri Quotes

“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”
― Collette, Chéri

“she was approaching the age when she could indulge in a few creature comforts. She liked order, fine linen, wines in their prime, and carefully planned meals at home.”
― Colette, Chéri

“Do I have a separate room? Don’t I make love to you well?”

She hesitated, smiling with exquisite suspicion. “Do you call that love, Fred?”

“There are other words for it, but you wouldn’t appreciate them.”
― Colette, Chéri

“Beautiful? For whom? Why, for myself, of course.”
― Colette, Chéri

“They looked at each other in open hostility—she, leaning on her elbow in a flurry of frills and lace; he, sitting side-saddle on the edge of the bed. He was thinking ‘Who’s she to talk of any wrinkles I may have one day?’ and she ‘Why is he so ugly when he laughs?—he who’s the very picture of beauty!’ She thought for a moment, then finished aloud: “It’s because you look so ill-natured when you’re joking. You never laugh except unkindly—ᴀᴛ people, and that makes you ugly. You’re often ugly.”
― Colette, Chéri

“A long relationship is like following your husband to the colonies: when you get back, no one knows you and you don’t know how to dress anymore.”
― Colette, Chéri