All Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Quotes
- The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description. Art
- Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. Boredom
- Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. Bandage
- For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. Devil
- Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are… Abyss
- They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end. Atheist
- We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful… Careful
- The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree… Barbarism
- Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to… Break