“Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.”
Émile Gaboriau“Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe,"How do you like Gaboriau?""I like him very much indeed!"Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.”
Julian Street“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, File No. 113“Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.”
Émile Gaboriau, File No. 113“...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.”
Émile Gaboriau, File No. 113“Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.”
Émile Gaboriau, File No. 113“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....”
Émile Gaboriau, File No. 113“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.