Theophile Gautier Quotes

[a Cat] Will Make Itself The Companion Of Your Hours Of Work, Of Loneliness, Or Of Sadness.

Sooner Barbarity Than Boredom.

White Men Should Exhibit The Same Insensibility To Moral Tortures That Red Men Do To Physical Torments.

You Do Not Become A Critic Until It Has Been Completely Established To Your Own Satisfaction That You Cannot Be A Poet.

Yes, The Work Comes Out More Beautiful From A Material That Resists The Process, Verse, Marble, Onyx, Or Enamel.

Cats Are The Tigers Of Us Poor Devils.

It Is Difficult To Obtain The Friendship Of A Cat.

What I Write Is Not For Little Girls.

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.

Only That Which Serves No End Is Beautiful; Everything Useful Is Ugly.

It May Well Be That The Pictures Of Courbet, Manet, Monet And Their Like Contain Beauties Which Escape The Notice Of Such Old Romantic Heads As Ours, Already Streaked With Silver Threads.

Critical Lice Are Like Body Lice, Which Desert Corpses To Seek The Living.