Quotes by : Jean Lorrain

(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise

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

But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf....

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

There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable....

In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever....

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

To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living... and only dreams can do that for me.

His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed....