Quotes About Quint

En toen keek ook kleine Quint op van zijn PS. Hij vroeg aan de clowns: 'Weten jullie wanneer eetzuster Gera komt?' De cliniclowns wisten niet wanneer eetzuster Gera kwam. 'Oh,' zei Quint toen, alsof hij Poetin was, 'ga dan maar weg.

If Quint—on your remonstrance at the time you speak of—was a base menial, one of the things Miles said to you, I find myself guessing, was that you were another.

Desde el ligero sobresalto, aquella noche en la planta alta, sufrido ante la presencia de la mujer al pie de la escalera, nada había visto dentro ni fuera de la casa que mejor hubiera sido no ver. Había muchos recodos donde esperaba tropezar con Quint y muchas situaciones en que, por su siniestra naturaleza, hubieran debido favorecer las apariciones de la señorita Jessel.

There were exactly states of the air, conditions of sound and of stillness, unspeakable impressions of the KIND of ministering moment, that brought back to me, long enough to catch it, the feeling of the medium in which, that June evening out of doors, I had had my first sight of Quint, and in which, too, at those other instants, I had, after seeing him through the window, looked for him in vain in the circle of shrubbery.

A quick, sharp laugh from Quint broke the thread of tension. "What a pair of assholes," he said. "I seen that coming since you came aboard this morning.