Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

No gall has ever poisoned my pen.

Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (February 13, 1707 – April 12, 1777) was a French novelist.

Quotes

• La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
  • Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.
  • During the French Revolution; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.

• Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plume.
  • No gall has ever poisoned my pen.
  • Discours de Reception; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

• Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.
  • Every moment of life is a step toward the grave.
  • Tite et Bérénice, I, 5.