“What saves doctors' reputations is the fact that many illnesses are benign and that people can go on living with a large… — Gabriel Chevallier Doctors Copy Share Image
“The desire for carnal possession quickly cools, whereas the desire to own land never quits the heart of man.” — Gabriel Chevallier Desire Copy Share Image
“My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country"… — Gabriel Chevallier Patriotism Copy Share Image
“Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.” — Gabriel Chevallier Nightmares Copy Share Image
“For the wine of Clochemerle is at once exquisite and treacherous; it charms first the nose, then the palate, finally the entire… — Gabriel Chevallier Daily life Copy Share Image
“I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to… — Gabriel Chevallier War Copy Share Image
“Women all have the same female pretentions and even the most virtuous among them like to convince themselves that they can tempt… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“The death of the Curé Ponosse occurred in the vintage month, when his beloved Clochemerle was impregnated with the odour of new… — Gabriel Chevallier Death Copy Share Image
“They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men… — Gabriel Chevallier Disfigurement Copy Share Image
“There were, in Clochemerle, a number of lady 'invalids', their conversation one long jeremiad concerning their health, who had worn out their… — Gabriel Chevallier Blood flow Copy Share Image
“Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that… — Gabriel Chevallier Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of… — Gabriel Chevallier Filth Copy Share Image
“Frail to the point of invalidism, without family and with nothing to look forward to, she [Mlle Muguette] yet contrived to be… — Gabriel Chevallier Family Copy Share Image
“Men are sheep. Which is why armies and wars are possible. They die victims of their stupid docility.” — Gabriel Chevallier War Copy Share Image
“Alas, God's poor ministers are just as much in the dark as we are. You must believe like old women believe, the… — Gabriel Chevallier God Copy Share Image
“The Curé Noive had a sister who acted as his housekeeper, a lady with a moustache, whose piety was astringent, and who… — Gabriel Chevallier Life Copy Share Image
“In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.” — Gabriel Chevallier Pretty good Copy Share Image
“Love is a transaction, at least of emotions in the rarest cases: you love to get something in return.” — Gabriel Chevallier Love Copy Share Image
“The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too… — Gabriel Chevallier Holiness Copy Share Image
“It was true that the elders found everything changing all about them with a precipitation which was leaving them stripped of authority.… — Gabriel Chevallier Changing-times Copy Share Image
“The middle classes did not go to public hospitals; those places were reserved for workers, child-mothers, and those unfortunates who had wasted… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The… — Gabriel Chevallier Confidence Copy Share Image
“The Clochemerle 1929 was a magnificent wine. Drinking it in small sips, his grace the Archbishop felt himself well disposed towards the… — Gabriel Chevallier Heaven and hell Copy Share Image
“During several centuries Clochemerle, far from the cities and trade routes, had lived in stillness and isolation. But now, at last, the… — Gabriel Chevallier Isolation Copy Share Image
