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.
Émile GaboriauExcessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....
Émile GaboriauTags: suffering
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.
Émile GaboriauTags: suspicion
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.
Émile GaboriauTags: love
Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.
Émile GaboriauIt is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.
Émile GaboriauAlas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.
Émile GaboriauI have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.
Émile GaboriauTags: men-and-women
There are some people who must be saved without warning, and against their will.
Émile GaboriauHe 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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