Fanfan la Tulipe – Character Quotes

— Why did they capture you?
— To end my exploits.
— What was your crime?
— Love, with premeditation.

— Your name?
— Fanfan la Tulipe.
— La Tulipe? What a charming nickname! We have a Larkspur, a Meadowsweet, a Buttercup and a White Lilac. This isn't a regiment. It's a flower bed.

What a charming view! There's a lovely valley between those hills.

— I love you!
— Don't be sad! I don't love you!

— Stupid and tedious... That's what I think of all this.
— Who do you think you're talking to?
— You, Sergeant.
— I'll break you in. I had three horses killed under me.
— Alas, the best always go first.

— What are you staring at?
— Are you really going to grow a mustache?
— I thought about it. Why?
— He has! Tranche-Montagne, I love you! She was right.
— Who?
— I saw a fortune-teller.
— The competition?
— She's a real one.
— And you believed her?
— I believe in cards, horoscopes, tarot, the stars, palmistry, God, the Blessed Virgin.

— Don't leave me. I can't go on living without you.
— It was predicted you'd live, and happily. Farewell. Forget me. Fanfan will have lived like a rose. The brief life of a tulip.