“My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to astonish men...men like you.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“Now, Mesnilgrand saw himself come to full maturity without the great military career that he had hoped for, his sword rusting in its scabbard,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to astonish men...men… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
“He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share
