Emile Gaboriau Quotes

#1. Woman submits to her fate; man makes his

Emile Gaboriau

#2. Poets are simply people who see things two ways. Like children, as if they had never seen them before. Like old men, as if they would never see them again.

James A. Michener

#3. Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.

Emile Gaboriau

#4. All children of cosmonauts went to one school. We all lived in the same neighborhood, Star City, and all of us, children of cosmonauts, were in the center of attention from the teachers and general inhabitants of the Star City, and so it was difficult in that respect.

Roman Romanenko

#5. God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

Mark Twain

#6. You don't get the pint, Woodrow, I've walked the earth in my pride all these years. If that's lost, then let the rest be lost with it. There's certain things my vanity won't abide.

Larry McMurtry

#7. There are some people who must be saved without warning, and against their will.

Emile Gaboriau

#8. A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.

Emile Gaboriau

#9. Did nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began? With equal complacence she saw his misery, condoned his meanness and acquiesced in his torture.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....

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#11. Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.

Emile Gaboriau

#12. As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing. It is generally in perfect good faith that the jackdaw struts about in the peacock's feathers.

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#13. Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere.

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#14. He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.

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#15. I have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.

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#16. A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, No, it is night.

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#17. Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

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#18. Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs.

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#19. You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me.

Emile Gaboriau

#20. ...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.

Emile Gaboriau