Top 100 Gautier Quotes
#1. Bubba there zombies ... and there trying to eat me!
-Nick Gautier
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.
Horton Foote
#3. They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes.
They lied.
The only thing Nick Gautier could see flashing was Kyrian Hunter's vampire fangs.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. Remember. Make him cry uncle.
Cry uncle, my posterior. I'm going to make him cry like a girl who broke her mom's designer heels at the prom.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. [A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society ...
Theophile Gautier
#7. Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
Francois Gautier
#8. Ahhh, you two are special friends." Nick
"How do you mean?" Kyrian
"He thinks we're a couple" Ash
"No No No Definitely not. Not that Acheron is not an attractive man, not that I've ever really noticed whether or not he's attractive, but male is not my type." Kyrian
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#11. Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!
Theophile Gautier
#12. With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
Theophile Gautier
#13. Sometimes 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 Gautier
#14. The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable us to remain in the world of fantasy and escape from the people we rub shoulders with in the street. Ballets are the dreams of poets taken seriously.
Theophile Gautier
#15. The public, which has been wrong before and is wrong now, can accept only demons and angels on the stage
Theophile Gautier
#17. I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into her frozen remains the fire that was consuming me.
Theophile Gautier
#18. What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
Theophile Gautier
#19. Tear up that funeral shroud - you are going to smother yourself in it. I am beauty, I am youth, I am life - come to me, and together we will be Love itself ... Our life together will flow by like a dream, and it will be as one perpetual kiss.
Theophile Gautier
#20. Pleasure has turned into passion much more quickly than I should ever have thought possible.
Theophile Gautier
#21. 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
#22. Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes?
Theophile Gautier
#23. 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 Gautier
#24. Demons, please! I ain't your hell-monkey. Really don't have time for this! Nick
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
Theophile Gautier
#26. Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
Theophile Gautier
#27. More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
Francois Gautier
#28. I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.
Francois Gautier
#29. The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.
Theophile Gautier
#30. By the power of Grayskull ... I have the power!" Nick
"By the power of Grayskull, I'm going to cleave your skull from your shoulders if you don't take this seriously." Caleb
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. 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.
Theophile Gautier
#32. The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.
Theophile Gautier
#33. You drank my blood?" Nick
"Aye" Aeron
"Dude, that's gross. I hope you brushed your teeth afterward. Saw a dentist. Drank a gallon of Listerine." Nick
"I told you he wouldn't be angry for it." Nashira
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. Things perish. Gods have passed.
But song sublimely cast
Shall citadels outlast.
Theophile Gautier
#37. [A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
Theophile Gautier
#38. It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal ... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier
#39. Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
Theophile Gautier
#41. That didn't sound like them slinging beads at us. Think if I whip my shirt off, they'll go blind and leave? Nick
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier
#45. Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
Theophile Gautier
#46. The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals
Theophile Gautier
#48. Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.
Theophile Gautier
#50. Pleasure has turned into habit much more quickly thn I should have ever thought possible.
Theophile Gautier
#52. For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate.
Theophile Gautier
#53. Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
Theophile Gautier
#54. White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
Theophile Gautier
#56. Are you sure Savitar is on our side?" Nick
"I can hear you, kid," Savitar growled "And yeah. I'm on your side."
"Just checking. My other former allies turned out to be myths.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. Yes, I have loved as none in the world ever loved - with an insensate and furious passion - so violent that I am astonished it did not cause my heart to burst asunder. Ah, what nights - what nights!
Theophile Gautier
#58. The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
Theophile Gautier
#59. The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier
#61. The only vampires I've ever seen are the Goths trying to get a glimpse of Anne Rice's house, who drink strawberry sodas and tell each other it's blood.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
Theophile Gautier
#63. I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.
Francois Gautier
#65. They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn't know how to let either of them in.
Amina Gautier
#67. Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Theophile Gautier
#68. I know I don't want to ask this, but the compulsion's more than I can bear. What's kind of human?" Ash
"She's a ghost." Nick
"What kind of idiot dates a ghost?" Ash
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier
#70. Those 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 Gautier
#71. You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Theophile Gautier
#72. Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
Francois Gautier
#73. Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.
Theophile Gautier
#74. Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
Theophile Gautier
#75. But one place ain't no different from no place else. People try and make it like everything's new only to find the devil done followed you wherever you moved and all you can do is hold him off whiles you catch your breath
Amina Gautier
#76. Acheron: You're really not right, are you?
Nick: Yeah. I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#77. [Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
Theophile Gautier
#79. I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.
Francois Gautier
#80. If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear off that funeral shroud in which thou about to wrap thyself. I am Beauty, I am Youth, I am Life. Come to me! Together we shall be Love.
Theophile Gautier
#81. To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.
Theophile Gautier
#82. I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
Francois Gautier
#83. Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?"
"Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Theophile Gautier
#85. And of a Sunday swarm the folk
Under the honeysuckle vine,
Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke,
The sun, the melody, the wine.
Theophile Gautier
#86. And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour.
Theophile Gautier
#87. Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#88. He started to look back, but he knew better. That fool always got eaten in the movies. And Nick didn't want to be on anyone's menu.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#89. That's right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh," Nick said arrogantly. "You might know karate, boy, but I know gorilla, and I'm a level 40 champion in it. Let's hear it for Diddy Kong! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!" He mimicked the sound of a gorilla as he held on for dear life.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. Babe, I don't know you and my no zone has a very short guest list. Consider my belt the velvet rope no one crosses without an express invitation.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#91. Nothing is truly beautiful unless it cannot be used for anything; everything that is useful is ugly because it is the expression of some need, and those of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor and infirm nature.
Theophile Gautier
#95. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Theophile Gautier
#96. Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
Theophile Gautier
#97. Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine."
"My mom suffers from those a lot, too."
"Being around you, I imagine she does.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#98. I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.
Richard Gautier
#99. Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.
Theophile Gautier
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