Quotes by : Théophile Gautier

I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotten....

Although it was only six o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity....

You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about....

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one and gratitude....

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious....

To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you;....

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion,....

And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The....

One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them,....

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I....