Jules Barbey D'aurevilly Quotes

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

Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

#2. What do you say we mark this day - the day we met - by buying each other a record? Something we think reflects our perceptions of each other.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#3. First off, you should know that your daughter is going to be fine." ... "Jordan's been through an ordeal but she is ... " Incredible. Strong. Smart. Gorgeous. Hot as a firecracker in bed. Probably better to keep that part to himself.
" ... quite tough," he finished.

Julie James

#4. I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

Daul Kim

#5. A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

Sheryl Crow

#6. 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

#7. The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

Peter Drucker

#8. (it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#9. For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#10. I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

Little Richard

#11. The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Khalil Gibran

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

Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

#13. 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

#14. Most adult emotions are emergent properties. They are subjective mental states that represent the convergence of more primitive

Anonymous

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I think Koenigsegg is Swedish for: Oh no, my head has just exploded!

Jeremy Clarkson

#19. 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

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

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#21. Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Albert Camus

#22. 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

#23. [God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

Ezola B. Foster

#24. Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

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

Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

#29. Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Arthur Erickson

#30. Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

John Fletcher

#31. For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#32. Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

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

Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly