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