Quotes by Maurice Leblanc

"What a pity that I am not an honest man!"
— Maurice Leblanc
"Life itself, in fact, with its storms and its greatnesses, its monotony and its variety, becomes a sort of tragic epitome; and that, perhaps, is why we enjoy with a fevered haste and an intensified delight this short voyage of which we see the end at the very moment when we embark upon"
— Maurice Leblanc
"La pendule égrenait le chapelet infini des secondes."
— Maurice Leblanc
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Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (/ləˈblɑːn/; French: [ləblɑ̃]; 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentle...