Théophile Gautier Quote

I have remarked that those who love women most, and are most tender in their intercourse with them, are most inclined to speak ill of them, as if they could not forgive them for not being as irreproachable as they wish them to be


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


I have remarked that those who love women most, and are most tender in their intercourse with them, are most inclined to speak ill of them, as if...

I have remarked that those who love women most, and are most tender in their intercourse with them, are most inclined to speak ill of them, as if...

I have remarked that those who love women most, and are most tender in their intercourse with them, are most inclined to speak ill of them, as if...

I have remarked that those who love women most, and are most tender in their intercourse with them, are most inclined to speak ill of them, as if...