Book: Captain Fracasse

Hymen! The secrets of happiness must be hidden.

Kindred souls will inevitably meet if they know how to wait.

Usually poets, actors and townspeople meekly bend their backs when the powers that be honor them with beatings.

On the sides of the hall, semblances of lodges were knocked together from spruce boards, and the middle was occupied by a stalls with standing places for poor citizens, shopkeepers, judicial scribes, apprentices, schoolboys, lackeys and other rabble.

The anxieties of real life cannot divert the actors from their theatrical passions.

Let me tell you, Your Grace, that in this manner you will not achieve anything, ”Uncle Bilo declared, giving the most humble bow, as befits a person standing at the very last steps of the social ladder when he dares to contradict a person of high rank.

Nothing turns me off like being overly accessible. I can't stand fortresses that capitulate without waiting for a siege.

If I were lucky enough to meet an impregnable beauty, it seems that I would love her in earnest, but you will not find such people on the whole globe.

To hell with duchesses and courtesans, townswomen and shepherdesses! Where women - there dokuka, deceit and tedious rigmarole.

Money is the engine of war, love and theater. Plus, they're round. They are supposed to roll, not be bored, lying at the bottom of my wallet.

Until now, Fortune has shown me nothing but a gloomy and gloomy face, but now she smiles graciously at me. I want to take advantage of her benevolence, no doubt fleeting.

He is not yet accustomed to fake theatrical love, which often hides deep disgust and irreconcilable enmity.

For us, comedians, the stepmother-church forbids access to the cemetery and deprives us of the joy of resting in consecrated ground.

Just in case, he put on a melancholy air, behind which women guess a heart wound and are eager to heal it.