15 Quotes by Arsene Houssaye

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, – one’s self and one’s other self.