Quotes by : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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

For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often....

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

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime.....

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....

Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that....

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