Quotes by : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately....

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds....

The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.

He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable –....

Fools – in other words most people – imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able....

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever....

Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is....

Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!

Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That....