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Yours is ... il sent comme lavande."
Is that French for 'You stink'?"
It means 'lavender'."
Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
Death lasts only a moment, but we think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, - Mais on y pense chaque instant)
Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
Well, au revoir, one and all.
Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.
Hous vivons aux temps des assassins - "we live in days of assassins" - where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.
O reputation! dearer far than life.
Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)
Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!
Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.
L'chaim!': To life!
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country.
[Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]
Ser mal profesor sale barato
Tinks titties Rache
Jenks
O tempora! O mores!
O what times (are these)! what morals!
Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.
The gods my protectors.
[Lat., Di me tuentur.]
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
[Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!
Ave Atque Vale
Hail and farewell
Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.
Nulle cre ature humaine ne peut commander a' l'amour. No human being can give orders to love.
Ah! si l'on o tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.
La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.
Moi?", said I, in perfect fucking French.
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
Semper fuckin' fi
Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue
Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe.
It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant)
he's always walking about with a long face
il est triste comme un jour sans pain
Ici le fashion police. How can I enhance your fabulousness
Dans une grande a me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
In perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (Forever and ever, brother, hail and farewell.)
The waves lie on the beach; Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s'allongent sur la plage; - Tes cheveux sur ton dos d'ange. )
Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order.
[Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites.
(Eternity hangs from this moment.)
No hay libertad con hambre
Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
Illegitimis nil carborundum.
Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.
Parish me no parishes.
Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)
L'homme est condamne a' e tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
Carpe Diam forever after.
A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]
Pas encore. Qa m'amuse."
"Really, Poirot!"
"Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not?
Who sees the death blinds the death. (Qui voit la mort - Aveugle la mort)
Everyone can get the gold of the Sun. (Tout le monde cueille - L'or du soleil)
Soft and faire goes farre.
Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
Donnez-moi la main! I see we worship the same God, in the same spirit, though by different rites.
The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
Struggling writer' e un pleonasm, cuz a writer is always struggling.
There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven.
[Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]
We are the new age. The new world. And if we're to show the way, then we better damn well make it a better one. I am Sevro au Barca. And I am no longer afraid.
Quod me alit, me extinguit"
'What feeds me, extinguishes me
Quoi?" she had said, in perfect fucking French.
The siren that is this city speaks to us insistently even after we've moved away. She belongs to us, truly, and to each in a different way. Paris nous appartient.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world).
Par exemple! I never had to ask. You were always there under my feet, like a troublesome cat." "You mean like an adoring dog. And just as soon as Ratignolle appeared on the scene, then it WAS like a dog. 'Passez! Adieu! Allez vous-en!
Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
[Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.
[Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo
The blind also cry. (Les aveugles aussi pleurent)
Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)
The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.)
Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!
Bene!" And in English, "Well! What now, Dom?
Et tu, Caesar? Then fall, Caesar.
Et tu, Estha? Then fall, Estha.
There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
[Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
Que les imitateurs.]
Tous les genres sont bons,
Hors le genre ennuyeux."
(All genres are good,
Except the boring one.
Francaise with our own proper pack. This permission, we feel bound to say, was graciously granted; which compels us here to give a public contradiction to the slanderers who pretend that we live
On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?"
"Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you."
"Je t'adore aussi. Call me. Bye."
"Bye.
Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our country is the common parent of all.