Carnival in Flanders (1935)
Lyne Clevers: La poissonnière, The Fish-Wife
Quotes
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Josef Van Meulen, le boucher : Is your husband already there?
La poissonnière : Yes. He gets the glory and leaves me all the work.
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Cornelia de Witte, Madame la Bourgmestre : Women! Women! Since our men clearly can't handle the situation, we will!
Town Woman #1 : We'll do it without them.
La poissonnière : Do without men? Impossible.
Town Woman #2 : Why?
La poissonnière : You know why.
Cornelia de Witte, Madame la Bourgmestre : Even there, they need us more than we need them.
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Town Woman #2 : Father, tell us some tales of the Inquisition.
Le chapelain : Oh, that was so long ago.
Town Woman #1 : For our edification.
Le chapelain : [to the waiteress] No, I'll have white.
[to the dinner guests]
Le chapelain : Very well. You remind me of a blonde virgin who was tortured. She'd been beaten with rods five times.
La poissonnière : Was she naked?
Le chapelain : Like Eve before original sin. They rubbed honey on her and made a goat lick it off with its abrasive tongue.
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La poissonnière : [crying] I summoned up all my courage this morning and was ready to sacrifice everything, but the Spaniards didn't keep their word!
Le nain : What did they say?
La poissonnière : That they'd sack the whole town and attack the women. I waited all day! What do you want? I'm the sentimental type.
