Quotes by : Jean Lorrain

The Marquis de V... - whose falsetto voice and little watery eyes I have always detested - was saying....

The charm of horror only tempts the strong

...the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh,....

The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption....

A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!....

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation....

Then Chameroy spoke. 'You always put the blame on opium, but as I see it the case of Freneuse is much....

Against a set of desolate scenery, amid spectral crags and livid mountains of ash, beneath the funereal....

At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted.I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and....

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring....