Quotes by : Émile Gaboriau

It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life....

Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....

Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.....

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

He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another....

...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.