Café Metropole (1937)

Loretta Young: Laura Ridgeway

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Quotes 

• Alexis : Love not only comes, it goes. Comes and goes. Comes...

  Laura Ridgeway : Yes, I know... like your accent.

• Joseph Ridgeway : I have but one rule about titles. If they're charming, they're fakes. If they're genuine, they're stupid.

  Laura Ridgeway : There he goes again.

• Monsieur Victor Lobard : With your permission, Mr. Ridgeway, his highness, Prince Paneiev, requests the honor of dancing with Miss Laura. It's a royal prerogative, sir. Quite without impertinence.

  Joseph Ridgeway : That may be true but...

  Laura Ridgeway : Tell his highness, I'd be delighted.

  Monsieur Victor Lobard : Thank you, Miss Laura.

  Margaret Ridgeway : Sounds like a royal pickup to me.

• Alexis : But you do not understand. I am saying good-bye.

  Laura Ridgeway : But you promised to help me pick out a new hat.

  Alexis : You make everything so difficult.

  Laura Ridgeway : Not everything, darling.

• Alexis : May I have the pleasure?

  Laura Ridgeway : Why, yes, of course.

  [they go to the dance floor] 

  Margaret Ridgeway : [to her brother, Joseph]  He'll get to you later.

• Joseph Ridgeway : I tell you, the man is an international adventurer.

  Laura Ridgeway : International my foot. Why, don't you suppose I've been out with enough Princeton men to recognize one when I see him?

  Joseph Ridgeway : Princeton. PRINCETON! It's impossible - that's my school.

  Laura Ridgeway : I'll try not to hold that against him.

• Laura Ridgeway : Have you ever been to America?

  Alexis : Er, no. No, but my, my parents - they go there upon the honeymoon.

  Laura Ridgeway : Hm, hm. That's where I'm going on our honeymoon.

  Alexis : What?

  Laura Ridgeway : I said that's where I want to go on my honeymoon.

• Laura Ridgeway : And dogs, do you like dogs?

  Alexis : Oh, yes. Yes, I, I love the Russian wolfhound.

• Alexis : Why is it your father - he glare at me so?

  Laura Ridgeway : That's not a glare. That's a squint. He wants to see you nearer.

• Laura Ridgeway : You know what you are?

  Joseph Ridgeway : Yes, I do. I'm an American Babbitt who loves his daughter and doesn't want to see her get hurt.

• Laura Ridgeway : Well, there's something on your conscience. Have you killed someone?

  Alexis : No. No, that is the trouble. I should like to kill someone.

• Laura Ridgeway : I love you too, darling, but you're a snob.

  Joseph Ridgeway : Who's a slob?

  Laura Ridgeway : I didn't say slob - I said snob.

• Alexis : You can never tell about the Russians

  Laura Ridgeway : Tell what?

  Alexis : You can never tell anything.

• Laura Ridgeway : Are you ill?

  Alexis : No. No, I'm not ill. I, I am in what you call the mood.

• Laura Ridgeway : [to her father, Joseph]  By accident of birth, you were born a commoner. All right. By another accident of birth, he was born a prince. And so, you look down on him. Now, I ask you, is that fair?