Mad Beppo

Favorite Quotations

  • Yves Congar on the Prophet

    Le prophète est celui qui s’oppose à ce que le moyen devienne fin, à ce que la forme extérieure soit cherchée et servie pour elle-même. The prophet is a person opposed to the means becoming an end, to the exterior form’s being sought for and served for its own sake. –Yves Congar, Vraie et fausse réforme dans l’Eglise (p201)

  • Rupert to Brandon (Rope)

    What were you thinking when you squeezed the life out of him? Did you think you were G O D, BRANDON?! A quoi songeais-tu pendant que tu lui retirais la vie? Te prenais-tu pour D I E U, BRANDON?! –Rupert (Jimmy Stewart) to Brandon (John Dall) in Rope (1948)

  • Brandon to Rupert (Rope)

    Go ahead and look! I hope you LIKE what you see!!! Eh bien! vas-y, regarde, puisque tu y tiens. J’espère que la vue te plaira! – Brandon (John Dall) to Rupert (Jimmy Stewart) in Rope (1948)

  • Orson Wells Narrating King of Kings

    And Jesus took himself down by the Sea of Galilee, and there he did name his third apos-tle, and summon him forth on land. – The narrator (Orson Welles) in Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings (1961)

  • Camille Curses Rome – Horace

    Rome! l’unique objet de mon ressentiment! Rome, only object of my anger! – Camille, in Pierre de Corneille’s Horace (1640)

  • The Sad Old Earth (EWW)

    Laugh, and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone; / For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, / But has trouble enough of its own. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Solitude”

  • Rameses: So Let It Be Written

    So let it be written — So let it be done! Qu’on l’écrive ainsi — et qu’on le fasse pareillement! – Rameses (Yul Brynner) in The Ten Commandments (1959)

  • Quinault, Cadmus & Hermione, “Je le

    Quand on lui dit: Comment? Il répond: Je le veux! When you say to him: How? He answers: Just do it! – Philippe Quinault, Cadmus & Hermione

  • What Baudelaire Is Thinking About

    Je pense aux matelots oubliés dans une île, / Aux captifs, aux vaincus!…à bien d’autres encor ! I think of the sailors left behind on an island…of the captives, the conquered…of many others yet!– Baudelaire, “Le Cygne”

  • Baudelaire on the Form of a City

    La forme d’une ville / Change plus vite, hélas! que le cœur d’un mortel! The form of a town, alas, changes more quickly than a mortal’s heart! – Baudelaire, “Le Cygne”

  • Madam Blanc – Suspiria

    Where is that bitch of an American girl? She must VANISH! She must die, d i e, D I E ! – Joan Bennett, as Madame Blanc in Suspiria (1977)

  • Albert Camus on Guilt

    On est toujours un peu fautif. One is always a bit at fault. – Albert Camus (1942)

  • Inspector Vital Pronounces – Godard

    On ne plaisante pas avec la police parisienne! You don’t joke around with the Paris police force!– Inspector Vital, in J-L Godard’s A bout de souffle (1960)

  • Remonstrance of the White Queen

    Consider what a great girl you are. Consider anything, only don’t cry! – the White Queen (1871)

  • Ballade des pendus – Villon

    Tous hommes n’ont pas bon sens rassis. Not all folks have good settled sense.– François Villon (1461)

  • Nothing But Stones (EWW)

    I think I never spent so sad an hour, / Dear Friend, as that one at the Church tonight! – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Nothing But Stones”

  • Mr Darling

    A little less noise there, a little less noise! – Mr. Darling to the Darling children (1911)

  • Zadig on reason – Voltair

    Sétoc. Y a-t-il rien de plus respectable qu’un ancien abus? Zadig. La raison est plus ancienne. Sétoc. Is there anything more venerable than an old abuse? Zadig. Reason is older still.– Voltaire, Zadig

  • Marivaux, Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard 1

    M Orgon. Dans ce monde, il faut être un peu trop bon pour l’être assez. Lisette. Il n’y a que le meilleur des hommes qui puisse dire cela. M Orgon. In this world, one has to be a little too kind to be kind enough. Lisette. Only the kindest of men could say that! – Marivaux, Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard (1730)

  • Klaus Kinski Likes Shadows

    Ich liebe die Dunkelheit, und die Schatten, wo ich allein mit meinen Gedanken sein kann. I love the darkness, and the shadows, where I can be alone with my thoughts.– Klaus Kinski as The Count in W. Herzog’s Nosferatu (1979)

  • The Firechief’s Story – la Cantatrice

    Non! non! quatre fois non! je ne suis pas ta fille! No! No! Four times no! I am not your daughter!– Eugene Ionesco, la Cantatrice chauve (1950)

  • Father Loomis Asks: Why? – Prince of

    Why didn’t they tell us the T R U T H ? He was O U R prisoner!– Donald Pleasence as Father Loomis in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987)

  • Kim McAfee on Keeping Up – Bye–bye,

    Times have changed, Doris. Either you go along, or else you’re out of it.– Kim McAfee (Ann–Margret) in Bye–bye, Birdie (1963)

  • The Misfit on Life

    Shut up, Bobby Lee. It’s no real pleasure in life. – The Misfit, in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find

  • Moses & the Angel of Death

    Close the door, Joshua, and let death pass!! Ferme la porte, Josué. Que la Mort aille son chemin!– Moses (Charlton Heston) in The Ten Commandments (1956)

  • Tammy Faye & God

    God made you. And God doesn’t make junk! C’est le Bon Dieu qui t’a fait. Et le Bon Dieu ne fait pas des choses nulles! – Tammy Faye Bakker Messner († July 27, 2007)

  • Marivaux, Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard 2

    M. ORGON.  Mon cher Monsieur, je vous demande mille pardons de vous avoir fait attendre; mais ce n’est que de cet instant que j’apprends que vous êtes ici. ARLEQUIN. Monsieur, mille pardons! c’est beaucoup trop, il n’en faut qu’un, quand on n’a fait qu’une faute; au surplus, tous mes pardons sont à votre service. M. Orgon. My Dear Sir, a thousand pardons for my having made you wait, but it is only just now that I learned you were here. Arlequin. Sir, a thousand pardons is far too many; one per fault is sufficient! And in any case all my pardons are at your service. –Marivaux, Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard

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