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Theophile Gautier

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
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ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
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WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
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QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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AUGUSTUS

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THEOPHILE GAUTIER I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER Sooner barbarity than boredom.
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one Flock the synagogue of swall...
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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THéOPHILE GAUTIER Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER It would be so great if we could find some kind of a sky hook and pick up these gorgeous buildings a...
MARY GAUTIER It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, t...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER La dicha es una cosa tan rara en este mundo, que el hombre no ha pensado en inventar palabras para e...
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FRANCOIS GAUTIER I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more g...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate.
THéOPHILE GAUTIER Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 year...
FRANCOIS GAUTIER I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.
FRANCOIS GAUTIER To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER And of a Sunday swarm the folk
Under the honeysuckle vine,
Quaffing, the while they talk ...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the corres...
FRANCOIS GAUTIER I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I...
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AMINA GAUTIER (Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always ...
THéOPHILE GAUTIER Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
JULES DE GAUTIER For a minute or perhaps two-and this is a long time-the theater makes man better and happier on this...
JEAN JACQUES GAUTIER Men who love humanity have all dreamed at least once during their lives of bringing all their fellow...
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