Don’t ever wear artistic jewellry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation. - Colette

Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.

Kiki-The-Demure: Once when I was little She tried to give me castor oil. I scratched and bit her so, she never tried again. Ha! She must have thought she held the devil between her knees. I squirmed, blew fire through my nostrils, multiplied my twenty claws by a hundred, my teeth by one thousand, and finally — disappeared as if by magic. Toby-Dog: I wouldn't dare do that. You see, I love her. I love her enough to forgive her even the torture of the bath.

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.