Quotes by : Gabriel Chevallier

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch....

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they....

There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment....

He was regarded merely as an eccentric employee of indifferent merit, and his post of deputy chief clerk....

At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the....

There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind.....

The Clochemerle 1929 was a magnificent wine. Drinking it in small sips, his grace the Archbishop felt....

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

Alas, God's poor ministers are just as much in the dark as we are. You must believe like old women believe,....

During several centuries Clochemerle, far from the cities and trade routes, had lived in stillness and....