Bluebeard Quotes

“Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“Marriage was like death. You knew it'd happen eventually, but it wasn't something you dwelt on.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride

“I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“Blood was flowing – in Bluebeard’s house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“If he is so evil, why are we standing here watching him?" Sabrina said.
"Cause I'm trying to get up the courage to go over and asking for an autograph," Puck said.”
― Michael Buckley, Tales From the Hood

“As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully depart.”
― Shuli Barzilai, Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times

“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It's hard to believe how sick of war we used to be.[...]We used to call armaments manufacturers "Merchants of Death."
Can you imagine that?
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“words rarely mean much when it comes to trust.”
― Rohit Sawant, After the Happily Ever After: a Collection of Fractured Fairy Tales

“Should I trust you, Vireo?” I asked him calmly. In fairytales, the girls never ask that question. Maybe it’s because they know they will be lied to, so why ask at all. Or maybe it’s because they fear the answer will be exactly as they expect. Or maybe because they have other things on their mind like spinning straw into gold before everyone they love perishes. But I have always found you can learn as much from lies as from the truth, so I asked.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“His father saw him off. Demon had dyed his hair a blacker black. He wore a diamond ring blazing like a Caucasian ridge. His long, black, blue-ocellated wings trailed and quivered in the ocean breeze. Lyudi oglyadïvalis’ (people turned to look). A temporary Tamara, all kohl, kabesk rouge, and flamingo-boa, could not decide what would please her demon lover more—just moaning and ignoring his handsome son or acknowledging bluebeard’s virility in morose Van, who could not stand her Caucasian perfume, Granial Maza, seven dollars a bottle.”
― Nabokov Vladimir, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle