12 Quotes by Émile Gaboriau

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.