Loving Couples (1964)

Anita Björk: Petra von Pahlen

Quotes 

• Petra von Pahlen : Social life is awful. I'm too old to have fun and too young to keep away.

• Petra von Pahlen : I want to be old. I've been young too long and nothing has happened.

• [first lines] 

  Petra von Pahlen : Angela, remember it's *our* child.

• Petra von Pahlen : There's mother love for you. I caper about for days on end to get the brat out. But I expect he's too snug where he is. He needs a smack on the bottom.

• Petra von Pahlen : [singing]  Where is my wandering child tonight, The child that I long have sought, Who made me once so glad and bright, whom I still love, I thought...

• Angela von Pahlen : The world's not up to much.

  Petra von Pahlen : It never will be.

  Angela von Pahlen : I see I'll have to change you first. You're so sad.

  Petra von Pahlen : No, I'm quite content in a melancholy kind of way.

• Petra von Pahlen : [watching Stellan prancing about]  He's a bit touched.

  Angela von Pahlen : Perhaps all men are. Men, what are they anyway. I've quite forgotten.

• Petra von Pahlen : How are you, Jacob? You never say unless I ask.

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : Macson ignores my friendship with his wife and borrows money from me. Very civilized. I'm a seducer and he's an upper class pimp.

• Petra von Pahlen : It looks to easy to be womanly and weak. I can't.