Pickpocket (1959)
Quotes
[last lines]
Michel: Oh, Jeanne, to reach you at last, what a strange path I had to take.
L'inspecteur principal: A useful thief, then? A benefactor? That's the world upside down.
Michel: It's already upside down. This could set it right.
Jacques: Look where the great man lives -- in a hovel.
Jacques: Could one turn a blind eye to certain kinds of theft?
[first lines]
Michel: I know those who've done these things usually keep quiet, and those who talk haven't done them. Yet I have done them.
Michel: Can we not admit that certain skilled men, gifted with intelligence, talent or even genius, and thus indispensable to society, rather than stagnate, should be free to disobey laws in certain cases?
L'inspecteur principal: That could be difficult. And dangerous.
Michel: Society could only gain from it.
L'inspecteur principal: Who will identify these supermen?
Michel: They themselves. Their conscience.
L'inspecteur principal: You know any man who doesn't think he's exceptional?
Michel: The pickings were poor and not worth the risk.
Michel: These walls, these bars -- I don't care. I don't even see them.
Jacques: Thieves disgust me. They're idlers.
Michel: I can be honest. At least let me try.
L'inspecteur principal: Stealing from your mother isn't really stealing.
Michel: I lost my earnings at cards or wasted them on women.
