Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist and short story writer. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James, Leon Bloy, and Marcel Proust.

French - Novelist | November 2, 1808 - April 23, 1889

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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 spill over, or break.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

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For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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 to neither wound no pollute.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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 of intellectuality.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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 abysses as deep as those of love.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly