A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the p…

- Jules De Goncourt

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

- Jules De Goncourt

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

- Jules De Goncourt

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating …

- Jules De Goncourt

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

- Jules De Goncourt

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

- Jules De Goncourt

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientifi…

- Jules De Goncourt

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value:…

- Jules De Goncourt

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

- Jules De Goncourt