Conquest (1937)
Charles Boyer: Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
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Quotes
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Countess Pelagia Walewska : Who are you?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I am Napoleon!
Countess Pelagia Walewska : Napoleon? Napoleon who?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Hmm? Bonaparte!
Countess Pelagia Walewska : Napoleon Bonaparte? What kind of name is that? What nationality are you?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Corsican by birth. French by adoption. Emperor by achievement.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : So, you are an Emperor, are you? What are you Emperor of?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Emperor of France, madame.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : Hee, hee, hee. So you are Emperor of France. And my very good friend, His Majesty, King Louis Sixteenth abdicated in your honor, I suppose?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Well, he didn't know it at the time but in a sense he did, madame.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : This house is getting to be a lunatic asylum.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I must get to know the Poles better!
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Are you real? Or, born of a snow drift?
Countess Marie Walewska : Whichever your majesty wishes.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Snow vanishes. I prefer you real. Quite real.
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Count Anastas Walewski : I am 75 years old, sire.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : And Madame is your first wife?
Count Anastas Walewski : My third, sire.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Let me congratulate you, Chamberlain, on your excellent taste. How old are you, Madame?
Countess Marie Walewska : If that is a command, sire, it is one that women have a right to disobey.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Very well spoken. I do not forget courage in either man or woman. Is this gentleman your son?
Count Anastas Walewski : Yes, sire.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : And this?
Count Anastas Walewski : My grandson.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I congratulate you, Madame. For a grandmother, you are extraordinarily well preserved. I regret, I did not know you when you were young.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I shall send it up to you, invite you to my quarters.
Countess Marie Walewska : I have a husband, sire.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : He's four times your age!
Countess Marie Walewska : He has his dignity. He has his honored name. He has his pride. And so have I, sire.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Now I understand. So, it is pride you have in common!
Countess Marie Walewska : That does not become a conqueror, sire.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : When you have conquered, Madame, you may instruct me.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I understand perfectly. You have chosen to play the coquette with me.
Countess Marie Walewska : Why, I have no idea of playing the coquette, sire.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : That's so much the better. I prefer coquette only when it is instinctive. But, now you must make amends. You've made me woo you. All week! A week of hours that might have been filled with happiness for us both. You are the only woman, whose favor I have ever begged for.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Let me have this too. It hides your lovely hair.
[Removes Countess Walewska's hat]
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : That's better. What soft hair. Like a child's. Mmm. I love this face. At the ball, I couldn't keep my eyes away from it. All the while, Tallyrand and the others were talking about politics, I was thinking, I must take that proud face between my hands. I must kiss that mouth. That lovely mouth, made only for love.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : You shy, Marie. Well, this is not your first love affair, Marie. Or, is it?
Countess Marie Walewska : I've had no love affairs, sire.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : None?
Countess Marie Walewska : I have only one love, sire, my country. Help us, sire! We're in your hands. Don't let a proud people beg in vain for what is rightfully theirs. We're desperate! You're powerful! Help us, sire! Our loved ones fought for you! They were fighting for liberty - as desperately as you did for France. Isn't that a bond, sire, between you and them and freedom? You are the hope of the world, sire! One word from you would set us free! Say it, sire! Say it!
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Lovely. You are lovely, Marie Walewska.
Countess Marie Walewska : I came to you as a woman, sire. As a woman desperate in the cause of her country. Forgive me, sire. There was no other way. But, I speak to you now, as a messenger of a broken people. Won't you hear me too?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Lovely.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Who sent you?
Countess Marie Walewska : You did, sire. You sent for me...
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I who hate women who meddle, lose my head over a woman who comes to a rendezvous, not to please me or even herself! But, to babble, about politics!
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Countess Marie Walewska : Sire, if I can't move you to be just, can't I at least move you to pity?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Pity is for the contemptible, Marie. You and I do not deal with them.
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Countess Pelagia Walewska : What were you before you became an Emperor?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : A corporal.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : That's what I thought. A soldier. Why do you say you were an Emperor?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : One can be both, Madame. Alexander was.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : Everybody who goes crazy thinks he is Alexander. Now, if Alexander went crazy, who would he think he was?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Napoleon.
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Countess Pelagia Walewska : Emperor! Corporal! Alexander! Are you Caesar too?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : A touch.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : You bear watching.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I hear that on every side, Madame.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I am lonely.
Countess Marie Walewska : Isn't loneliness a small price to pay for power, sire?
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : You presume to know me very well, don't you?
Countess Marie Walewska : Sire, you stand in the Sun.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Against my will, I love you.
Countess Marie Walewska : I believe in you.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Come with me, Marie.
Countess Marie Walewska : I shall never long for Spring again. In the Spring, you'll have to go forth to war. You'll be in danger, fighting. I shall long always for Winter - when you'll be safe.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I have signed many treaties. But, this is the first time, I am at peace.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : The crown would not be unbecoming of that lovely head.
Countess Marie Walewska : I want no other crown but your loving me.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I learned as much from the gossip of the kitchen as the twaddle of the court. The kitchen is a world in miniature.
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Countess Marie Walewska : Are you ever alone?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : With you, always.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : You gave greatly, for so little.
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Constant : It is not safe to leave a woman alone with him for a minute...
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Why not?
Constant : Well, with a man like that, there's no restraint, your majesty. He barely looks before he leaps.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Leaps, Constant?
Constant : Well, you know how it is, your majesty, figuratively speaking.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : And what do women say about this extraordinary Pastry Cook?
Constant : Well, you know how it is, your majesty, I'm afraid the conscience of women is greatly overrated, your majesty.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : You appreciate the delicacy of their position! Hey, Constant?
Constant : Yes, your majesty.
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Tallyrand : I'm not opposed, your majesty. At least we will not have to pursue that dream of a united Europe.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : From now on, Tallyrand, I am Europe!
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I was a fool to expect understanding from a woman. You will see! Russia will see! England will see! Whether I am the slave of power - or it's master.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : This is my 40th birthday.
Countess Marie Walewska : You are immortal.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I am an old man.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I am an ordinary man; but, my life is not an ordinary one.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Why do you say nothing?
Countess Marie Walewska : If you were in my place, what would you say?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I'm not a woman! I cannot put words into your mouth.
Countess Marie Walewska : Then perhaps, don't - there are no words.
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Countess Marie Walewska : If you really loved me, that love would save your love.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Politics has no heart. It has only a head.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I was looking at Corsica. My France and my Corsica. They love me, the French! And I love them.
Laetitia Bonaparte : If they loved you, they would not keep you a prisoner on this island.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : The French love me. I must give that love for my son. The Empress knows how much I want to see him.
Laetitia Bonaparte : She did not bring him yesterday. She will not bring him today. She will not bring him tomorrow.