Antoine-Vincent Arnault

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

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.