Best Zola Quotes

#1. He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.

Susan Vreeland

#2. Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

Emile Zola

#3. It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside.

Emile Zola

#4. He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth.

Emile Zola

#5. Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.

Emile Zola

#6. Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Emile Zola

#7. These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Emile Zola

#8. After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy

Emile Zola

#9. The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.

Emile Zola

#10. The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Emile Zola

#11. She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

Emile Zola

#12. I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.

Emile Zola

#13. There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.

Zola Budd

#14. With his mouth open, he gave off that alcoholic smell that you get from an old brandy cask when you take out the bung.

Emile Zola

#15. As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo.

Gianfranco Zola

#16. We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.

Ken Bates

#17. It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.

Gianfranco Zola

#18. For a moment he [Doctor Pascal] thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild, satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.

Emile Zola

#19. I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

Zola Budd

#20. When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Emile Zola

#21. They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

Emile Zola

#22. When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African,

Zola Budd

#23. The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

Emile Zola

#24. I am an artist ... I am here to live out loud.

Emile Zola

#25. I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Zola Budd

#26. With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour it, as though ravenous with an abominable hunger to butcher them. But this one, could he then love her, and not kill her?

Emile Zola

#27. The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

Emile Zola

#28. From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

Emile Zola

#29. She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.

Emile Zola

#30. The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Emile Zola

#31. Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy
love which creates life?

Emile Zola

#32. Like certain devotees, who think they can fool God and wrest a pardon by paying lip-service to prayer and adopting the humble attitude of the penitent, Therese humiliated herself, beat her chest, found words of repentance, without having anything in the bottom of her heart except fear and cowardice.

Emile Zola

#33. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.

Emile Zola

#34. The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

Emile Zola

#35. If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Emile Zola

#36. I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move,

Zola Budd