Quotes by : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind,....

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

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

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

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially....

Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!

Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...

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....

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of....