Emile Gaboriau Quotes
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Fools sit down and wait for an opportunity; sensible men make one.
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Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs.
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As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing. It is generally in perfect good faith that the jackdaw struts about in the peacock's feathers.
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She had reached the perfidious age when a woman’s beauty, like a full-blown rose, fades in a day.