Quotes by : Théophile Gautier

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

What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children,....

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....

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature....

Demander à la poésie du sentimentalisme ... ce n'est pas ça. Des mots rayonnants, des mots de lumière....

Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.

[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day....

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....