Emile Gaboriau Quotes & Sayings

Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere. — Emile Gaboriau

There are some people who must be saved without warning, and against their will. — Emile Gaboriau

Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor.... — Emile Gaboriau

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

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. — Emile Gaboriau

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

It 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. — Emile Gaboriau

Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others. — Emile Gaboriau

Woman submits to her fate; man makes his — Emile Gaboriau

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. — Emile Gaboriau

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. — Emile Gaboriau

Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen. — Emile Gaboriau

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

...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime. — Emile Gaboriau

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

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. — Emile Gaboriau