Theatre quotes

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The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

- Theophile Gautier

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.

- Theophile Gautier

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

- Theophile Gautier

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

- Theophile Gautier

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

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

- Theophile Gautier

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

- Theophile Gautier

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

- Theophile Gautier

Modesty was made for the ugly.

- Theophile Gautier

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

- 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

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

- Theophile Gautier

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

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

High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.

- Theophile Gautier

Great artists do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

- Theophile Gautier

Good heavens! What a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

- Theophile Gautier

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

- Theophile Gautier

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

- Theophile Gautier

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

- Theophile Gautier

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

- Theophile Gautier

A cat will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

- Theophile Gautier

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

- Kevin Spacey

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

- Kevin Spacey

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

- George Jean Nathan

All the world says: yes we know what’s written in the books but now let’s see what our eyes tell us.

- Bertolt Brecht

A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.

- Bertolt Brecht

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

- Bertolt Brecht

It is simplicity that is difficult to make.

- Bertolt Brecht

First comes food, then comes morality.

- Bertolt Brecht