Emile Gaboriau Quotes

When an honorable man yields, in an hour of weakness, to temptation, his first step toward atonement is confession.

Emile Gaboriau

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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stand
  • Temptation
  • Liberal

• All art is a confession.

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Art
  • Confession

• Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Temptation

• 'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Character
  • Question

• Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Temptation

• There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Lazy
  • Temptation

• We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
  • May
  • Power
  • Struggle

• There is a temptation to have shortcuts and not put in the time and the effort. I think you have to be willing to talk to people and sit sometimes around a table and listen to other people.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Time
  • Effort

• We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

  

  Don Mattingly
  • Work
  • Temptation

• Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Death
  • Evil
  • Temptation

• I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

  

  Peter Mayle
  • Worry
  • Temptation

• I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Real
  • True
  • Deep

• No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

  

  James Allen
  • Heart
  • Temptation

• Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.

  

  Derek Blasberg
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • People
  • Temptation

• When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Believe
  • Wisdom
  • Temptation

• Sharpe wanted to be liked by the men under his command. He was tempted to believe that if he was friendly and approachable, reasonable and kind, then his men would follow him more willingly. But kindness was not the wellspring of loyalty and he knew the temptation had to be resisted.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Kindness

• No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Pictures
  • Papers

• The predominant colour of the kitchen - its walls, cupboards, floor, shelves - with all the ancillary rooms - pantries, larders, cold stores, and sculleries, is green - Hooker's dark green, leaf-green, emerald, faded turquoise, and eau-de-nile - like the colours of a dark wet jungle.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Dark
  • Cold
  • Green

• One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.

  

  M. M. Musselman
  • People
  • Best
  • Marriage

• When an honorable man yields, in an hour of weakness, to temptation, his first step toward atonement is confession.

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Temptation
  • Confession
  • Yields