It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotten thee. But I… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Tear up that funeral shroud—you are going to smother yourself in it. I am beauty, I am youth, I am life—come to… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“It is as absurd to say that a man is a drunkard because he describes an orgy or a debauchee because he recounts a… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Smoke By Théophile Gautier Translated by Norman R. Shapiro Over there, trees are sheltering A hunchedback hut... A slum, no more... Roof askew, walls… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image