Jules Barbey D'aurevilly said this quote

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

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

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

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful.

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly