The 400 Blows quotes

12 total quotes

Julien Doinel
Juvenile Delinquent
Petite Feuille

View Quote Antoine Doinel: I need some money for lunch, dad. Only 1,000 francs.
Julien Doinel: Therefore you hope for 500. Therefore you need 300. Here's 100.

View Quote English Teacher: Last and simple question. Where is the father?
René: Ze fazer...
English Teacher: No. The father.
René: Ze fazer.
English Teacher: No, the tip of the tongue between the teeth. As if you had a lisp. Father.
René: Fazer.
English Teacher: No.
René: But I can't, sir. Not everybody has a tongue like yours.

View Quote Gilberte Doinel: I'm not in the mood.
Julien Doinel: Too bad, I am.

View Quote Gilberte Doinel: The best thing is to eat out until the end of the month.
Julien Doinel: For that, I need a clean shirt.

View Quote Psychiatrist: Your parents say you're always lying.
Antoine Doinel: Oh, I lie now and then, I suppose. Sometimes I'd tell them the truth and they still wouldn't believe me, so I prefer to lie.

View Quote [to Antoine about another boy in the reformatory] He escaped a week ago, but they got him. Around here to escape is bad enough, but getting caught is worse.

View Quote Doinel, if your paper is first today, it's because I've decided to give the results beginning with the worst.

View Quote Every time I cried, my father would imitate me on his fiddle, just to drive me nuts. One day I got fed up and I knocked him out.

View Quote I have no socks left around these holes.

View Quote I'm an unstable psychotic individual with perverted tendencies.

View Quote If she drops her pen, pick it up, but don't look at her legs. Or else it will be on your record.

View Quote Now, Doinel, go get some water and erase those insanities, or I'll make you lick the wall, my friend.