Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Octave Feuillet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Octave Feuillet.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Octave Feuillet was a French novelist and dramatist. His work stands midway between the romanticists and the realists. He is renowned for his "distinguished and lucid portraiture of life", depictions of female characters, analyses of characters' psychologies and feelings, and his reserved but witty prose style. His most popular work remains his 1858 novel Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre, which has been adapted for film many times by Italian, French, and Argentinian directors.

French - Novelist | August 11, 1821 - December 29, 1890

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The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

Octave Feuillet

Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.

Octave Feuillet

Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.

Octave Feuillet

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

Octave Feuillet

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

Octave Feuillet