The Ladies' Paradise Quotes

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“Crever pour crever, je préfère crever de passion que de crever d'ennui !”
― Emile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“His creation was a sort of new religion; the churches, gradually deserted by a wavering faith, were replaced by this bazaar, in the minds of the idle women of Paris. Women now came and spent their leisure time in his establishment, the shivering and anxious hours they formerly passed in churches: a necessary consumption of nervous passion, a growing struggle of the god of dress against the husband, the incessantly renewed religion of the body with the divine future of beauty.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“Mais il avait oublié l’inventaire, il ne voyait pas son empire, ces magasins crevant de richesses. Tout avait disparu, les victoires bruyantes d’hier, la fortune colossale de demain. D’un regard désespéré, il suivait Denise, et quand elle eut passé la porte, il n’y eut plus rien, la maison devint noire.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“La certitude d'avoir empêche de désirer.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“Denise était venue à pied de la gare Saint-Lazare, où un train de Cherbourg l’avait débarquée avec ses deux frères, après une nuit passée sur la dure banquette d’un wagon de troisième classe. Elle tenait par la main Pépé, et Jean la suivait, tous les trois brisés du voyage, effarés et perdus, au milieu du vaste Paris, le nez levé sur les maisons, demandant à chaque carrefour la rue de la Michodière, dans laquelle leur oncle Baudu demeurait. Mais, comme elle débouchait enfin sur la place Gaillon, la jeune fille s’arrêta net de surprise.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“¿Pero es que no ve lo que estoy sufriendo?... Que estupidez, ¿verdad? ¡Sufro como un niño!”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“action contains its own reward. To act, to create, to fight against facts, to overcome them or be overcome by them—the whole of human health and happiness is made up of that!”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“Le había quedado, de los tiempos en los que soñaba con dedicarse a la literatura y se juntaba con poetas, una desesperación universal.”
― Émile Zola, El Paraíso de las Damas

“You know, they’ll have their revenge.”

“Who will?”

“The women, of course.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise [ THE LADIES' PARADISE BY Zola, Emile ( Author ) Sep-01-2008

“— Именно за жената се състезават магазините — каза той, — именно нея се стараят да уловят в постоянните клопки на своите оказиони, замаяли предварително главата й с витрините. Магазините пробуждат в жената жажда за нови наслади, представляват огромна съблазън, на която тя неизбежно се поддава; отначало купува със здравия усет на добра домакиня, после отстъпва от кокетство и накрая напълно се увлича. Като разширяват смело продажбата и правят разкоша общодостъпен, тези магазини се превръщат в страшен стимул за разходи, опустошават домакинствата, съдействуват за безумието на все по-разорителната мода. И ако за тях жената е господарка, която те обкръжават с внимание и раболепие и чиито слабости ласкаят, тук тя царува като оная влюбена кралица, с която поданиците й търгуват и която заплаща с капка кръв всяка от своите прищевки.”
― Émile Zola, Au Bonheur des Dames

“... женщина не в силах противиться дешевизне и покупает даже то, что ей не нужно, если только убеждена, что это выгодно.”
― Эмиль Золя, The Ladies' Paradise

“It was the usual story of penniless young men, who think themselves obliged by their birth to choose a liberal profession and bury themselves in a sort of vain mediocrity, happy even when they escape starvation, notwithstanding their numerous degrees.”
― Zola Emile, Au bonheur des dames

“Yo la quiero... Hace mucho que lo sabe. No juegue el juego cruel de fingir que no entiende... y no tema nada.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“no le había quedado más remedio que hacerse una confesión: aún temblaba al ver pasar a Mouret, pero ahora sabía que no era de miedo.”
― Émile Zola, El Paraíso de las Damas

“en lo más hondo de aquel empecinamiento, clamaba la rebelión del modesto fabricante artesano contra la invasora vulgaridad de los artículos de bazar.”
― Émile Zola, El Paraíso de las Damas