

Altar Keane : Vern, when you come to a fenced range, do you always try to climb over it?
God, what an ugly town it has become !
Why can’t they call it Naples like we do?
(château de la Reine Blanche à Coye-la-Forêt)
(Coye-la-Forêt : étangs de Commelles et viaduc de la Reine Blanche détruit en 1985)
Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
(Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra, 1933)