Quotes by : Théophile Gautier

I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly....

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

For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes?

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself....

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

Things perish. Gods have passed.But song sublimely castShall citadels outlast.

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

The famous courtesan Clarimonde died recently, as the result of an orgy which lasted eight days and eight....

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