Arsene Lupin Quotes

I do my thieving indoors; you do yours on the Stock Exchange.

It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner.

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!

Arsène Lupin, the eccentric gentleman who operates only in the chateaux and salons, and who, one night, entered the residence of Baron Schormann, but emerged empty-handed, leaving, however, his card on which he had scribbled these words: “Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar, will return when the furniture is genuine.

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

Allí donde la fuerza fracasa - se dijo-, la astucia triunfa.

A woman was looking at me, Ganimard, and I loved her. Do you fully understand what that means: to be under the eyes of a woman that one loves? I cared for nothing in the world but that.

Sé que los jóvenes tienen con frecuencia sueños sin la autorización de sus padres.

Louis Seize

The aborigines of the Andaman Islands

Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Béchoux looked at him with hatred. He had never loathed a man so much. He stood up, threw a note on the table to pay the bill, and then walked away whingeing: “There are times when I wonder if this individual is the devil in person.” “That’s what I ask myself too sometimes,” laughed Barnett.

Why should I retain a definite form and feature? Why not avoid the danger of a personality that is ever the same? My actions will serve to identify me.