Adages Quote by Emile Gaboriau

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke

“He knew himself a villain—but he deem'd The rest no better than the thing he seem'd; And scorn'd the best as hypocrites who hid…

— George Gordon Byron

He was not a villainsimply a self-indulgent spoiled young man who had realized to himself no idea of duty in life.

— Anthony Trollope

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

— Graham Greene

“He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least, in the…

— K.J. Bishop

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who…

— Anthony Stevens

To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something…

— Matthew Davis

“He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him back into…

— Ivo Andrić

“He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of his own…

— Émile Zola

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and,…

— Samuel Johnson