246 Quotes by Émile Zola

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

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.