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
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.
may aging silver
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.
believe cat eye
Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.
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.
cat affection fidelity
Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!
cat animal-behavior difficult
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
cat solitude toil
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
blessing boredom barbarity
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
cat fur dilettantes
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
cat affection slave
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.
heart earth wonder
Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart
book moral
Books follow morals, and not morals books.