Jules Barbey D'aurevilly said this quote

“ He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable – which all gaiety must be in a society which would despise you if, while amusing it, you did not make it tremble a little. (A Woman's Vengeance) ”

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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 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 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 the most flattering of all marks of success

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The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly