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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)
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Rome! l’unique objet de mon ressentiment!
Rome, only object of my anger! – Camille, in Pierre de Corneille’s Horace (1640)
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”
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)
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
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”
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”
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)
On est toujours un peu fautif.
One is always a bit at fault.
– Albert Camus (1942)
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)
Consider what a great girl you are. Consider anything, only don’t cry!
– the White Queen (1871)
Tous hommes n’ont pas bon sens rassis.
Not all folks have good settled sense.– François Villon (1461)
I think I never spent so sad an hour, / Dear Friend, as that one at the Church tonight!
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Nothing But Stones”
A little less noise there, a little less noise!
– Mr. Darling to the Darling children (1911)
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
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)
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)
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)
Times have changed, Doris. Either you go along, or else you’re out of it.– Kim McAfee (Ann–Margret) in Bye–bye, Birdie (1963)
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
