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

~ Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau Empathy Suffering

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

~ Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau Suffering

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

~ Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau Accomplice Chance Crime

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

~ Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau Revenge Vengeance

He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project, he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of 'honor amongst thieves.

~ Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau Betrayal Villains

It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.

~ Émile Gaboriau

Émile Gaboriau Tragedy Treachery