Great opening lines - book, song or speech

[geocycle]

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French

Had to google to refresh my memory!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

“They say it takes just three alcoholics to keep a small bar running in a country town and while myself and the cousin, Thomas, were doing what we could, we were a man shy, and these were difficult days for Mr Kelliher, licensee of the North Star, Pearse Street.”

 

[Ming the Merciless]

“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door...”

 

[geocycle]

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home