“She lied, sir. She has always lied. I don't think she ever spoke a word of truth. But when she spoke, I believed her.”
― Prosper Mérimée, quote from Carmen
“Si tu ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime
si je t'aime, prends garde à toi!”
― Prosper Mérimée, quote from Carmen
“She had a strange, wild beauty, a face that was disconcerting at first, but unforgettable. Her eyes in particular had an expression, at once voluptuous and fierce, that I have never seen on any human face. 'Gypsy's eye, wolf's eye' is a phrase Spaniards apply to people with keen powers of observation.”
― Prosper Mérimée, quote from Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
Born place: in Paris, France
Born date September 28, 1803
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“Jack complained “I could really go for some bubble and squeak or some bangers. Do you kids think you could cook up some steak-and-kidney pie for me?”
The girls stared
“I hear noises coming from his mouth but they don’t sound like words,” Daphne said.
“Maybe he is having some kind of fit” Sabrina said.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Fairy-Tale Detectives
“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from Père Goriot
“More sex. We must have more sex.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from A Caress of Twilight
“We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
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