Émile Augier
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Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857.
Quotes
[edit]L’Aventurière (1848)
[edit]- L’amour chez les vieillards a d'étranges racines,
Et trouve, comme un lierre aux fentes des ruines,
Dans ces cœurs ravagés par le temps et les maux,
Cent brèches où pousser ses tenaces rameaux.- Act I., Scene V. (translation by Fabrice).
- From strangest roots love in old men doth grow;
Like ivy on a ruin it doth show,
And in these hearts laid waste by grief and time,
By myriad clefts its clinging branches climb. - Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 86.
- La vérité sort mieux d’un tonneau que d'un puits.
- Act II, Scene IV. — (translation by Annibal).
- Truth in a hogshead hides, not in a well.
- Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 119.
- La patrie est aux lieux où l’on a des amis.
- Act III., Scene III. — (translation by Monte-Prade).
- Where we have friends, there is our fatherland.
- Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 112.