Émile Augier

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

L’Aventurière (1848)

• 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.