Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

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.