Theophile Gautier Quotes
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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
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The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
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If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
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No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.
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What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
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[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.
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Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.
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I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
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The cat is a dilettante in fur.
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Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
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Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
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What I write is not for little girls.
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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
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It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
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[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
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High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
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Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.
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It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
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Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!
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Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
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Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart
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Modesty was made for the ugly.
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Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
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Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
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The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.
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The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
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Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.
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White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
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I was born to travel and write verse.
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