Laurent Chevalier Quotes in Murmur of the Heart (1971)

Clara Chevalier: Why not take things as they come?

Laurent Chevalier: Meaning?

Clara Chevalier: I don't know. Begin at the beginning. Wait to experience things yourself. And there's plenty of time. I'm not rushing you. Everyone has to discover love for himself. Lots of things can happen between a man and a woman. Better to find out for yourself, not from a book.

Laurent Chevalier: I'm tired of the old jazz. Always the same thing.

Laurent's Red Cross friend: The music store has the new Charlie Parker.

Laurent Chevalier: Let's go.

Laurent Chevalier: It's a great record. Charlie Parker solos with a rhythm section. The loony bin made him even better.

Laurent's Red Cross friend: What's the loony bin?

Laurent Chevalier: The madhouse, stupid.

Laurent's Red Cross friend: Is he crazy?

Laurent Chevalier: Nervous breakdown. Lots of jazzmen have them. And no wonder - alcohol, drugs, women.

Laurent Chevalier: You got the latest "Tintin"?

Michel, Laurent's friend: Yes. But the one before it was funnier.

Michel, Laurent's friend: They punished my whole class Saturday.

Laurent Chevalier: What for?

Michel, Laurent's friend: We put a bra on the statue of St. Thérèse.

Laurent Chevalier: You're such babies. You know what my brothers did? You know that big statue of St. Ignatius? They hoisted it onto the chapel roof. My parents were furious.

Michel, Laurent's friend: Were they caught?

Laurent Chevalier: Someone squealed. They tried claiming it was a miracle. They got expelled anyway.

Michel, Laurent's friend: I just read "The Little Prince". Great book, don't you think?

Laurent Chevalier: Not bad. A bit overrated.

Party Girl: You're worse than Thomas and you stink of cigars! You have to choose: cigars or women.

Laurent Chevalier: Cigars.

Party Girl: You bit me, you bastard! You can't even kiss! Shall I teach you? Open your mouth. Ha-ha. Not that wide.

[Kiss]

Laurent Chevalier: That's disgusting with your tongue!

Party Girl: No, it's not. You try it.

Marc: That's her. She tells fantastic stories about the days of real brothels. She should write a book. She's been in the business 35 years. You know what she told me? "One look at a client and I know what his vice is."

Laurent Chevalier: Do I have a vice?

Marc: Sure. You just don't know what it is yet.

Freda: Come here and I'll wash you.

Laurent Chevalier: I washed before I came.

Freda: Come on. You're cute, you know that? You're big for your age. You're raring to go, I see. Dry off, sweetie.

Marc: Proust to amuse you and "Tintin" to Instruct you.

[Hands Laurent two books]

Thomas: Here.

[Hands Laurent a record]

Laurent Chevalier: Dizzie Gillespie? Great!

Clara Chevalier: Do you enjoy hotels?

Laurent Chevalier: I haven't stayed in them enough.

Clara Chevalier: I adore hotels. I feel free, as if I were starting a new life. Even if it's only a feeling, it's very nice.