Devil Quote by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.”

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“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

“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

“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.”

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly