Dandy Quote by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Download Open image ““For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.”” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dandy Humor Irony Joke Respect
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“popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.” — Lindsey Davis Copy Share Image
“A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person's feelings” — Heather Wolf Copy Share Image
“Never use naughtiness in mixed company, unless your witticism is so funny that your audience will shoot tears of happiness out of their eyes… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected.” — Turcois Omine Copy Share Image
“Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.” — Fakeer Ishavardas 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 Image
“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 Image
“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“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 Image
It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the… — Donald Wildmon Copy Share Image
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Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes… — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
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“A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image