Top 27 Barbey D'aurevilly Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.
Kim Weston
#6. In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
#7. If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
Bruno Barbey
#11. For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross
Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
#13. Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
Roger Von Oech
#14. 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
#17. 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
#18. This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.
Bruno Barbey
#20. She was as inept at causing pain as she was at giving pleasure. Strange lioness, indeed! She thought she possessed claws, but when she tried to bare them, nothing emerged from her magnificent velvet paws. Her scratches were of velvet!
Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
#21. 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
#22. I clutched the handle of the door. Squeezed it. Settled my other hand along the doorway and prayed. Not for anything in particular. Just for the sake of doing it. To see if it would change things. To see if it would change me.
Emily Ruth Verona
#24. I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.
Amy Poehler
#27. Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.
Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
