Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. At least that's the way it is with me when i have to make a speech. Someone's got to catch hold of my coat-tails and pull me down by main force.
Exactly! It is absurd, improbable, it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money — or because the heart aches. L'amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, i permitted you to deceive yourself.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
I have always been so sure, too sure. But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know."
I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what i have done is justified or not justified. No — i do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, i am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force i shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.