Mata Hari Quotes

Netherlands, Dancer
August 7, 1876 – October, 15, 1917.

Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I and executed by firing squad in France.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari
- Dance
I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. But I beg you to believe me; I have never done an act of espionage against France. Never. Never.

Mata Hari

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Mata Hari
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

Mata Hari
- Music
- Dance
- Movement
He's used to life in the fast lane, travels all over the world, already risks his life racing at over 300km/h and seems to be handy with a gun.

Mata Hari
- Life
- Gun
- Risks
It's not just a matter of going through Heat and chucking in anyone. You have to have a pretty one, a funny one, a thick one and a mad one.

Mata Hari
- Pretty
- Matter
- Chucking
Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

Mata Hari
- Death
- Sleep
- Illusion
Everything is an illusion.

Mata Hari
- Everything
- Illusion

I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

Mata Hari
- Home
- Content
- Butterfly