7 Quotes by Maurice Leblanc

So much the better if no one can ever say with absolute certainty: There is Arsene Lupin! The essential point is that the public may be able to refer to my work and say, without fear of mistake: Arsene Lupin did that!

What a pity that I am not an honest man!

I shall not be present at my trial.

I do my thieving indoors; you do yours on the Stock Exchange.

The train was rushing on, joyously, intoxicated with its own speed.

It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner.

Life itself, in fact, with its storms and its greatnesses, its monotony and its variety, becomes a sort of tragic epitome; and that, perhaps, is why we enjoy with a fevered haste and an intensified delight this short voyage of which we see the end at the very moment when we embark upon.