Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief Quotes

“What a pity that I am not an honest man!”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

“Life itself, in fact, with its storms and its greatnesses, its monotony and its variety, becomes a sort of tragic epitome; and that, perhaps, is why we enjoy with a fevered haste and an intensified delight this short voyage of which we see the end at the very moment when we embark upon”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

“La pendule égrenait le chapelet infini des secondes.”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur

“It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner.”
― Maurice Leblanc, The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (Short Story Index Reprint Series)

“The train was rushing on, joyously, intoxicated with its own speed.”
― Maurice Leblanc, The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

“Officers of the law frequently form a hasty conviction as to the guilt of a suspected person, and then distort all subsequent discoveries to conform to their established theory.”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

“Now!” exclaimed Lupin. “I am going to take a rest, feed myself up, and gradually become myself again. It’s all very well to be Baudru or another, to change your personality as you would your boots, and to select your appearance, your voice, your expression, your handwriting. But there comes a time when you cease to know yourself amid all these changes, and that is very sad. I feel at present as the man must have felt who lost his shadow. I am going to look for myself… and to find myself”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

“So much the better if no one can ever say with absolute certainty: There is Arsene Lupin! The essential point is that the public may be able to refer to my work and say, without fear of mistake: Arsene Lupin did that!”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

“I shall not be present at my trial.”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

“Allí donde la fuerza fracasa - se dijo-, la astucia triunfa.”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsene Lupin Gentleman-Cambrioleur

“He acted like a ruined man whose only hope is suicide.”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

“Les Andrézy sont de bonne souche poitevine,”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur

“expéditions,”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur

“gémissements”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur

“investigations”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur

“perquisitionna”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur

“—Est-ce qu'un homme de la trempe d'Arsène Lupin a besoin d'assister au vol qu'il commet?”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur

“Los efectos más dispares provienen a menudo de una causa única”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur