White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
Theophile GautierThose horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.
Theophile GautierSometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.
Theophile GautierFortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
Theophile GautierWhatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.
Theophile Gautier