Antoine-Vincent Arnault

Antoine-Vincent Arnault in 1801

Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 1766 – 16 September 1834) was a French dramatist.

Quotes

Fables (1802)

• J'aime mieux un franc ennemi
  Qu'un bon ami qui m'égratigne.
  • Volume I., 5. — "Le Chien et le Chat".
  • Translation: An open foe I much prefer
    To a dear friend that scratches.
  • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 74.

• Secret de Polichinelle.
  • Volume I., 7. — "Le Secret de Polichinelle".
  • Translation: Punch's secret.
  • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 206.

• Amis, plus souvent qu’on ne croit,
  La tache est tout juste à l'endroit
  Où l'on voit briller la paillette.
  • Vol. III., 7. — "Les Taches et les Paillettes".
  • Translation: Friends, ofteuer than you think, upon the spot
    Where gleams the spangle, you will find the blot.
  • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 7.

• Je vais où va toute chose,
  Où va la feuille de rose
  Et lafeuille de laurier.
  • Volume V., 16. — "La Feuille".
  • Translation: I go where all nature goes,
    Where goes the leaf of the rose,
    And eke the leaf of the bay.
  • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 82.

• La cause de notre grandeur
  Peut l'être aussi de notre parte.
  • Volume VI., 13. — "La Fusée".
  • Translation: That which our greatness caused
    May also cause our fall.
  • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 99.