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....

I carry my liberty with me. It is in my thoughts, in my head. Shakespeare is one of my countries, Goethe....

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

Frail to the point of invalidism, without family and with nothing to look forward to, she [Mlle Muguette]....

For the wine of Clochemerle is at once exquisite and treacherous; it charms first the nose, then 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....

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....