Theophile Gautier
Theophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautierwas a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 August 1811
CountryFrance
heart passion men
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.
patience years meditation
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.
friendship philosophical cat
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.
girl writing littles
What I write is not for little girls.
teaching age doe
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
loneliness sadness cat
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
gratitude heart cutting
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.
satisfaction poet critics
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
greatest-love grows
When we love - we grow
body lice desert
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
beauty beautiful men
There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.
beauty art tasks
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.
writing house literature
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
chance god pseudonym
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.