Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Emile Souvestre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a novelist Emile Souvestre.
Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Emile Souvestre

Émile Souvestre was a Breton novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Brittany. Initially unsuccessful as a writer of drama, he fared better as a novelist and as a researcher and writer of Breton folklore. He was posthumously awarded the Prix Lambert.

Novelist | April 15, 1806 - July 5, 1854
Women speak in the superlative.
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast. — © Emile Souvestre
Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.
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