Author of quotes: Theophile Gautier. Page 2

From the appearance of my castle, you can see that I am not rich, but the reason for my poverty is the expenses of my ancestors for the war in defense of our kings, and I have nothing to be ashamed of.

The beginning of supper passed in silence; a great appetite, like a great feeling, is always silent.

Father's beaters, which the son recalled, moved to tears, are also a kind of communication with his own kind, and four years after the old baron rested under a stone slab in the family crypt, the young man lived in complete solitude.

Judging by the mysterious expression of the cat, a lot of surprising things should have been revealed to him during his nightly walks through the attics and uninhabited chambers of the castle, and more than once, it must be assumed, somewhere at the far end of the corridor he had meetings from which a person would turn gray in an instant.

The sense of impotence that accompanies poverty drove the smile off his face and wiped the velvety fluff of youth from his cheeks.

You breathe in the sweet moment, like the aromas of tea.

Great talent always accompanies a generous heart.

to come!

Et les violettes aux bois.

Poudrer à frimas l'amandier.

There are people who are pretentious by nature. They have a simplicity would be rather an affectation. They would have to put a lot of effort and a lot of work on himself to become simple. The convolutions of the brain are arranged in such a way that ideas like bent, tangled and twisted in a spiral, rather than follow a straight line. First they have the idea the most complex, most subtle and most intense. They see things at a strange angle of view, changing their view and perspective. Of all the images of them mostly striking images of the most unusual, most fantastic and far removed from the subject matter, and they know how to weave them into the basis for the mysterious thread, immediately rasputyvat.

... engage on a fishing hook, the rose and you can sit with a fishing rod, while the spider does not weave a web in the crook of your elbow and catch even small fish; engage a worm or a piece of moldy cheese and carp, barbel, perch, eels will become three feet to jump out of the water to grab the bait. And people are different from fish less than people think.

In order to live, there is no need for beautiful. If you cancel the flowers, the material this one does not suffer; and after all who wants their flowers did not? I rather not have potatoes than roses, and I believe that nobody, except for the benthamite, not able to weed the flower bed of tulips to plant cabbages. What good is a woman's beauty? As soon as the woman firmly folded from a medical point of view and able to bear children, any economist recognizes it fine.

Unfortunately, there are two things that come and go without asking: is love and boredom.