“Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 19.
Quotes from book
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
Original title
La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel
(French, 1534)
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel . The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence .
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 20 : How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song
“By robbing Peter he paid Paul, … and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
“This flea which I have in mine ear.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Third Book (1546), Chapter 31.
“The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 24.
Prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534)
“You shall never want rope enough.”
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
“I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 28.
“Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532), Chapter 16.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 19 : How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy
“The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.”
Original: …l'estomach affamé n'a poinct d'aureilles, il n'oyt goutte.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 63.
“Send them home as merry as crickets.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 29.
“Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 15.
“Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 28.
Et guerre faicte sans bonne provision d'argent, n'a qu'un souspirail de vigueur. Les nerfz des batailles sont les pecunes.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 44.
“Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 5.
“Thought the moon was made of green cheese.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
“He laid him squat as a flounder.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 27.
“Plain as the nose in a man's face.”
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
“He did not care a button for it.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 16.
