Sublime

Marty Feldman: Excuse me, is this seat occupied? He points to the seat next to JC in the otherwise empty, spacious carriage. John Cleese: No. MF puts case overhead and sits down as close as possible to JC and fidgets. Pause.

live upon their wits (or not so much, perhaps, upon the presence of their own wits as upon the absence of wits in other people)

watch the romances and comedies of his mind projected onto his face,

Riches have become the only object of men's desires, because wealth gives power. The man of noble race marries the daughter of the rich plebeian, and “marriage confounds the races.”

in the Italian film The Decameron, stories are told by young men and women trapped in a villa outside Florence to escape the Black Death.

Germany, he presented his version of the famous Gun Trick. Inspired by the tale of William Tell, Torrini would fire a marked bullet at his son; the bullet would be found lodged in an apple on his son's head. But one evening, through a tragic mistake, the trick failed and Torrini fatally shot his son on stage.He was imprisoned for the killing and ne