Émile Gaboriau Quotes

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Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

Émile Gaboriau

Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere.

Émile Gaboriau

He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.

Émile Gaboriau

A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.

Émile Gaboriau

A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.

Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau

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Born: November 9, 1832

Died: September 28, 1873 (aged 40)

Bio: Émile Gaboriau was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction.

Known for:

Monsieur Lecoq (1868)
L'Affaire Lerouge (1866)
The Mystery of Orcival (1867)
The Count's Millions
The widow Lerouge (1873)

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