List of Theophile Gautier Quotes

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Theophile Gautier
Total Quotes 53
[a cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
Loneliness Sadness Cat
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
Blessing Boredom Barbarity
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
Men White Red
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Satisfaction Poet Critics
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Beautiful Process Materials
Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.
Cat Devil Poor
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
Cat Animal Behavior Difficult
What i write is not for little girls.
Girl Writing Littles
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.
Gratitude Heart Cutting
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
Beautiful Ugly Ends
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.
May Aging Silver
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
Desert Body Lice
  • Born: August 30, 1811
  • Died: October 23, 1872
  • Occupation: Poet
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