Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers t... by Theophile Gautier | We Heart Quotes

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Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

- Theophile Gautier

Other quotes by Theophile Gautier

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.

- Theophile Gautier

Mind Love

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

- Theophile Gautier

Man World

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

- Theophile Gautier

Necessity

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

- Theophile Gautier

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

- Theophile Gautier

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

- Theophile Gautier

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