Quotes by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatreds nectar!

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

“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”

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