44 Quotes by Octave Mirbeau

Tp Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

But one gets tired of everything, even of abusing a person. Paris abandons its puppets which it raises to the throne as quickly as it does its martyrs whom it hoists on the gibbet; in its perpetual hunger for new playthings, it never gets itself excited overly much before the statues of its heroes or at the sight of the blood of its victims.

Venise n'est plus qu'une carte postale en couleurs." 1912

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.