Prosper Mérimée > Quotes

“I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“Carmen will always be free.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“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, Carmen

“Si tu ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime
si je t'aime, prends garde à toi!”
― Mérimée Prosper 1803-1870 Prosper, Carmen

“Me dicas vriardâ de jorpoy, bus ne sino braco.

(proverbe bohémien: Je suis habillée de laine, mais je ne suis pas mouton.)”
― Prosper Mérimée

“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, Carmen

“The dog and the wolf can't agree for long.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“The woman was plodding laboriously forward, bent beneath the weight of an enormous sack of chestnuts, while her husband sauntered along with only a rifle in his hand, and another slung over his shoulder; for it is unbecoming for a man to carry any burden but his weapons.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen and Other Stories

“Sir, a man may turn rogue in sheer thoughtlessness. You lose your head over a pretty girl, you fight another man about her, there is a catastrophe, you have to take to the mountains, and you turn from a smuggler into a robber before you have time to think about it.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“Забуваєшся, коли говориш про себе

(Хосе-Марія)

Розділ 3”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“До того ж, я радий був дізнатися що ж воно таке - розбійник. Його не щодня зустрінеш, і є певний шарм у тому, щоби побути в товаристві небезпечного чоловіка, особливо коли відчуваєш, що приборкав його, що він до тебе лагідний

Розділ 1”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“It strikes me you might place your gifts better. Why should you send powder to a ruffian who will use it to commit crimes? But for the deplorable weakness every one here seems to have for the bandits, they would have disappeared out of Corsica long ago."

"The worst men in our country are not those who are 'in the country.'"

"Give them bread, if it so please you. But I will not have you supply them with ammunition."

"Brother," said Colomba, in a serious voice, "you are master here, and everything in this house belongs to you. But I warn you that I will give this little girl my mezzaro, so that she may sell it; rather than refuse powder to a bandit.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Colomba

“The adjutant was a distant relative of Falcone. (It is a well-known fact that in Corsica degrees of kinship are traced much further back than is the case elsewhere.) His name was Tiodoro Gamba. He was a zealous man, much feared by the bandits, several of whom he had already tracked down.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen and Other Stories

“Il y a toujours quelque chose de solennel dans un départ, même quand on se quitte pour peu de temps.”
― Prosper Mérimée, La Vénus d'Ille. Colomba. Mateo Falcone

“Ciudată e mila omenească, ce nu face decât să-ţi prelungească suferinţa!”
― Prosper Mérimée, Chronique Du Règne de Charles IX (Éd.1890) (Histoire)

“Il me sembla qu’elle le pressait vivement de faire quelque chose à quoi il montrait de l’hésitation. Ce que c’était, je croyais ne le comprendre que trop à la voir passer et repasser rapidement sa petite main sous son menton. J’étais tenté de croire qu’il s’agissait d’une gorge à couper, et j’avais quelques soupçons que cette gorge ne fût la mienne.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“I don't love you any more. You love me still, and that is why you want to kill me.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“Between closed lips no fly can pass.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“Verrete perché io vi sto aspettando»; "Vi potrò vedere o no? That is the question: per conto mio, so bene come risolverla; ma siete voi a non volervi decidere. Ondeggiate, come ondeggerete tutta la vita, fra il vostro carattere di civetta e le abitudini di convento; tutto il male viene da lì".”
― Prosper Mérimée, Lettere a una sconosciuta

“Il est plus facile d'être brave en paroles qu'en actions.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Les Âmes du purgatoire

“The shepherds will give you milk, cheese, and chestnuts; and you will have nothing to fear from the law or from the dead man’s relatives, except when you have to go down to the town to replenish your ammunition.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen and Other Stories

“This kind of dense brushwood is known as maquis It is made up of various species of tree and shrub, tangled and intertwined at Nature’s whim. A man would need an axe to force a way through, and sometimes the maquis can be so dense and overgrown that even the wild sheep cannot penetrate it. If you have killed a man, go to the maquis above Porto-Vecchio, and you will be able to live in safety there, with a good rifle, gunpowder, and bullets.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen and Other Stories

“Yes, I'll follow you, even to death - but I won't live with you any more.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“Yalan söylüyordu beyefendi, hep yalan söyledi. O kız hayatında tek bir doğru söz etti mi bilmiyorum. Fakat ben o ne dese inanıyordum, elimde değildi.”
― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

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― Prosper Mérimée