The Works of Théophile Gautier Quotes

“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.”
― Théophile Gautier, The Works of Théophile Gautier

“only inasmuch as the injury had been secret, she was doing herself justice as best she could.”
― Théophile Gautier, The Works of Théophile Gautier

“[303]No doubt my reader wonders how cats and rats, two races so hostile to each other, and the one of which is the prey of the other, can manage to live together. The fact is that mine got on wonderfully harmoniously together. The cats were good as gold to the rats, which had lost all fear of them.”
― Théophile Gautier, The Works of Théophile Gautier

“The hand would chastise the head.”
― Théophile Gautier, The Works of Théophile Gautier