Carmen 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

“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

“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

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― Prosper Mérimée, Carmen

“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

“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 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

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

“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