Emile Gaboriau
Novelist
1832-11-09 – 1873-09-28
Emile Gaboriau was a French novelist and journalist often credited as a pioneer of modern detective fiction. His Monsieur Lecoq stories helped establish key conventions of the police procedural genre. He influenced later crime writers in Europe and beyond.
Quotes by Emile Gaboriau
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Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.
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Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere.
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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.
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