"She might have liked to try to strangle……" — Emile Zola
"She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment."
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56 Quotes by Emile Zola
Emile Zola has 56 quotes on this site.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything…
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we…
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts…
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not…
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile…
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions…
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why…
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some…
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils…
— Oscar Wilde
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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws…
— Lewis Carroll
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
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Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon…
— George Orwell
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To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a…
— Fred Bear
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If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not…
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