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 child…

- Emile Gaboriau

Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.

- Emile Gaboriau

Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.

- Emile 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.

- Emile 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 credul…

- Emile Gaboriau

Woman submits to her fate; man makes his

- Emile Gaboriau

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

- Emile Gaboriau