“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.” — Théophile Gautier Chance Copy Share Image
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. — Theophile Gautier Necessity Copy Share Image
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! — Theophile Gautier Animal Copy Share Image
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Theophile Gautier Admire Copy Share Image
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. — Theophile Gautier Animal behavior Copy Share Image
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Theophile Gautier Books Copy Share Image
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. — Theophile Gautier Exhibits Copy Share Image
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. — Theophile Gautier Cat Copy Share Image
“I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into… — Théophile Gautier Impulse Copy Share Image
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands. — Theophile Gautier Bedroom Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
“And of a Sunday swarm the folk Under the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody,… — Théophile Gautier Folk Copy Share Image
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. — Theophile Gautier Completely 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 Love 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… — Theophile Gautier Aging 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 Affection Copy Share Image
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought… — Theophile Gautier Being loved Copy Share Image
“Nothing is truly beautiful unless it cannot be used for anything; everything that is useful is ugly because it is the expression… — Theophile Gautier Beauty Copy Share Image
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person,… — Theophile Gautier Art Copy Share Image
Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind,… — Theophile Gautier Born 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… — Theophile Gautier Beautiful Copy Share Image
“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees… — Théophile Gautier Darkness Copy Share Image
“To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you; that everybody is impressed… — Théophile Gautier Beauty 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 Art 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 Afterlife Copy Share Image
“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in… — Théophile Gautier Books 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… — Theophile Gautier Smoke Copy Share Image
“I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak… — Théophile Gautier Earnestness 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… — Theophile Gautier Decadence Copy Share Image
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. — Theophile Gautier Made Copy Share Image
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