* C’est une plage où même à ses moments furieux,
Neptune ne se prend jamais trop au sérieux,
Où quand un bateau fait naufrage,
Le capitaine crie : « Je suis le maître à bord !
Sauve qui peut, le vin et le pastis d’abord,
Chacun sa bonbonne et courage ».

Georges Brassens – Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de sète

* « Poor Mabel. I guess she just didn’t have a green thumb. »

Alfred Hitchock – Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Martha Mason, Movie Star)

* I have made up my quarrel with Lord Byron. […] No englishman alive can equal his lordship for an insult. He arrived in Venice about a week ago and we met at Florian’s.

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell

* Socrates : […] Clouds, great divinities
to idle men; who supply us with thought and argument,
and intelligence and humbug, and circumlocution, and
ability to hoax, and comprehension.

The Clouds, Aristophanes ; translated by William James Hickie.

« None who venture there ever return. That mountain is evil. »

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

* « The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. »

Willa Cather – One of ours

« Oh, oh, oh, let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest height! Let’s go fly a kite, and send it soaring! Up through the atmosphere, up where the air is clear! Oh, let’s go… fly a kite! »

Mr. Banks – Mary Poppins (1964)