Colette Quote

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


Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy. as quoted in Lady of Letters Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps


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

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

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

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