Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (February 13, 1707 – April 12, 1777), called Crébillon fils or Crébillon le Gai (Crébillon the Gay) to distinguish him from his father, was a French novelist.

No gall has ever poisoned my pen.

Quotes

• If one only saw the people one respected one would see nobody.
  • Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit (1736–8), translated as The Wanderings of the Heart and Mind (1751) and by Barbara Bray as The Wayward Head and Heart (1963)