The Terrible Children (1950)

Edouard Dermithe: Paul

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• Gerard : It's for you!

  Elisabeth : How ugly. I like it. You're not so dumb after all.

  Paul : She hates violets.

  Elisabeth : Yes, but these are imitation. I'll put them in water.

• Elisabeth : What'll become of him if I don't go to work? I have to find a job!

  Paul : As a target in a shooting gallery, maybe.

• Elisabeth : I play nursemaid while you play in the snow. I bet you're the idiot who dragged him into this! Who'll nurse him? You? Don't just stand there, nitwit!

  Gerard : My dear Lisbeth...

  Elisabeth : I'm not *your* Lisbeth! Show some respect!

  Paul : Gérard, don't listen to the old bag. She's a pain.

  Elisabeth : Old bag? All right, you jerks! You're on your own. Nurse yourself. This takes the cake!

• Elisabeth : Leave us alone, I warn you.

  Paul : Right. That's a warning.

  Gerard : But...

  Elisabeth : No buts about it!

  Gerard : But...

  Paul : But nothing!

  Elisabeth : I'll slap him!

  [she slaps Gerard] 

  Elisabeth : Ah, no!

  Paul : Hit her back!

  Elisabeth : Cowards! Hitting a woman!

• Elisabeth : Know what Gérard suggested?

  Paul : Something stupid.

  Elisabeth : No. He's taking us to the seashore.

  Paul : The seashore?

  Elisabeth : Yes! We'll get to see the sea.

• Paul : Lise, are you telling the truth?

  Elisabeth : I never tell the truth.

• Elisabeth : How horrible!

  Paul : What's horrible?

  Elisabeth : Everything!

• Elisabeth : Paul is a free man, but he's hopelessly retarded.

  Paul : Isn't she charming?

• Elisabeth : Why don't you like her? Because she looks like that guy?

  Paul : You know why I don't like her? She's new and I hate anything new!

• Elisabeth : Spying on us now?

  Paul : I'm doing my duty.

  Elisabeth : Your duty?

  Paul : Yes, my duty! You're filthy whores and Gérard is a pimp!

  Gerard : Wait, wait...

  Paul : Don't interrupt. I'm leaving this house so so they can bring men here. I've always said models were nothing but lowlife sluts! They're both bitches in heat and you're to blame!

• Gerard : That boy, Michael, knows my uncle. He's a very rich American Jew. We wanted you to meet him.

  Paul : I refuse! I'll slap that low-down Jew in the face! Good going! You two have corrupted this poor girl. Are you trying to sell her to that Jew?

  Elisabeth : I didn't know you were anti-Semitic. Anyway, you're barking up the wrong tree. Michael wants to marry me and I like him.

  Paul : Marry you? You're mad! Have you looked in the mirror? Look! Look! No one would marry you. You're ugly! The queen of the idiots! He was just making fun of you!

• Elisabeth : Farewell, Paul.

  Paul : Where are you going?

  Elisabeth : Nowhere.

• Elisabeth : Paul, darling, I'll like one and we'll play the game.

  Paul : I'm too used to playing it by myself.