Lyne Clevers credited as playing...
La poissonnière • The Fish-Wife
- Josef Van Meulen, le boucher: Is your husband already there?
- La poissonnière: Yes. He gets the glory and leaves me all the work.
- Cornelia de Witte, Madame la Bourgmestre: Women! Women! Since our men clearly can't handle the situation, we will!
- Town Woman #1: We'll do it without them.
- La poissonnière: Do without men? Impossible.
- Town Woman #2: Why?
- La poissonnière: You know why.
- Cornelia de Witte, Madame la Bourgmestre: Even there, they need us more than we need them.
- Town Woman #2: Father, tell us some tales of the Inquisition.
- Le chapelain: Oh, that was so long ago.
- Town Woman #1: For our edification.
- Le chapelain: [to the waiteress] No, I'll have white.
- [to the dinner guests]
- Le chapelain: Very well. You remind me of a blonde virgin who was tortured. She'd been beaten with rods five times.
- La poissonnière: Was she naked?
- Le chapelain: Like Eve before original sin. They rubbed honey on her and made a goat lick it off with its abrasive tongue.
- La poissonnière: [crying] I summoned up all my courage this morning and was ready to sacrifice everything, but the Spaniards didn't keep their word!
- Le nain: What did they say?
- La poissonnière: That they'd sack the whole town and attack the women. I waited all day! What do you want? I'm the sentimental type.