The 400 Blows (1959)
Guy Decomble: 'Petite Feuille' - l'instituteur
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Quotes
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Antoine Doinel : Sir, it's my mother.
Petite Feuille : What about her?
Antoine Doinel : She's just died.
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Petite Feuille : Doinel, if your paper is first today, it's because I've decided to give the results beginning with the worst.
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Petite Feuille : Recess is a reward, not a right.
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[first lines]
Petite Feuille : Doinel, bring me that. Indeed! Go to the corner!
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Petite Feuille : Now, Doinel, go get something to win that rubbish off the wall, or I'll make you lick it off, my friend!
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Petite Feuille : Your quest of the absolute led you straight to a zero. For you who don't know Balzac, it concerns "A Shady Business".
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Petite Feuille : We have a young Juvenal in our class, though he doesn't know an Alexandrine from blank verse. Doinel, for tomorrow you will conjugate.
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Petite Feuille : [to his classroom of students] Poor France will be in a sorry shape in ten years!
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Petite Feuille : What class this year! I've known idiots before, but at least they were polite! They kept their heads down.