# The most legendary lines in French cinema

The lines everyone quotes in France, from Michel Audiard's dialogue to the Splendid troupe's comedies, with film and year.

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- Dec 19, 2023 · H. Legrand
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## Top 15

1. **Idiots will dare anything. That's actually how you recognise them.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Les Tontons flingueurs (1963), dialogue by Michel Audiard.
2. **You have to admit… it's strong stuff!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The kitchen scene, Les Tontons flingueurs (1963).
3. **Atmosphere, atmosphere, do I look like an atmosphere?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Arletty in Hôtel du Nord (1938) by Marcel Carné.
4. **You've got beautiful eyes, you know. — Kiss me.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan in Port of Shadows (1938).
5. **His name is Juste Leblanc. — Oh, he doesn't have a first name?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Dinner Game (1998) by Francis Veber.
6. **With a misunderstanding, it might just work.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean-Claude Dusse (Michel Blanc) in Les Bronzés font du ski (1979).
7. **It's fine, very fine, you can eat it without being hungry.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982), about the «doubitchou» sweets.
8. **I'm not saying it's not fair, I'm saying it's a relief.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982).
9. **Okayyy!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jacquouille la Fripouille (Christian Clavier) in Les Visiteurs (1993).
10. **How is your blanquette?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) in OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006).
11. **No arms, no chocolate.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Driss (Omar Sy) in The Intouchables (2011).
12. **When an outsider comes to live in the North, he cries twice: when he arrives and when he leaves.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Welcome to the Sticks (2008) by Dany Boon.
13. **Barbecue!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The secret sign in La Cité de la peur (1994) by Les Nuls.
14. **There's no propeller, alas. — That's where the bone is.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bourvil and Louis de Funès in La Grande Vadrouille (1966), a pun on «hélice/hélas» and «l'os/là».
15. **Thank you, wench. You're an ugly thing, but a kind one.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Godefroy de Montmirail (Jean Reno) in Les Visiteurs (1993).
16. **Did you say weird? How weird.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Louis Jouvet to Michel Simon in “Funny drama” (Marcel Carné, 1937), dialogues by Jacques Prévert.

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