Quotes from Eugène Sue

La vengeance se mange très-bien froide. (Original version of: "Revenge is a dish best served cold." Often misattributed to Mario Puzo.)

Even these two luckier fragmentary translations, now surviving only as curios in a few libraries, attest the vehemence and concertedness of the effort to suppress this great gift of Sue's intellect to the human race. It will be thus no longer.

ce vieux Grec...prophétisant l'avenir de cette nation, qui fut toujours un moyen ou un prétexte dans les mains des puissances européennes

La poesia, come il bene e il bello, è spesso contagiosa.

Once launched in the dizzy path of jealousy, lovers invariably give full sway to their imaginations and entertain the wildest ideas.

The most hardened hearts find a solace in the thought that their crimes are justifiable.

Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty.