Quotes by : Octave Mirbeau

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was,....

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

I did not know what she suffered from, but I knew that her malady must have been horrible; I knew that....

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a....

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon....

But one gets tired of everything, even of abusing a person. Paris abandons its puppets which it raises....

I understood that the law of the world was strife; an inexorable, murderous law, which was not content....

Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of understanding....