His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
I need ammunition, not a ride.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
It’s okay to be a little fucked up in the head. We all are. It’s only when you’re fucked up in the heart that makes you a piece of shit.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.