Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)

Claudia Dell: Sweet Kitty Bellairs

Quotes 

• Capt. O'Hara : Did you find it that?

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : What, sir?

  Capt. O'Hara : Humiliated.

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : To be seized, held, kissed, by a common ruffian of the road, how dare you could think it could be anything else.

• Capt. O'Hara : The man should pay for his offense with his life! The scum, the foul-minded, low, contemptible swine! But, I know, you fought, you scratched, you struggled, he really did not find your lips at all. It was only the merest peck, on your cheek.

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Well, no. Truth to tell, he took me so by surprise that before I could move, he kissed me. Then, when I scorned at him, he stepped forward again, with such quickness, such strength, it was like the leap of a panther; before I knew it, he held me in his arms. Then, I felt his lips upon mine, once, twice, thrice!

  Capt. O'Hara : He thrilled you then? There was something about him?

• Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Tell me, Alphonse, what shall I do? Whom shall I choose?

  Alphonse : The highwayman, by all means, my dear lady. I prefer the manly man!

• Julia : I don't care how I look. My husband doesn't love me any more!

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : That's probably the reason.

  Julia : But, he didn't come home all night.

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Well, you can't blame him with that virginal nightgown to look at.

  Julia : But, I was crying when he left last night.

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Then, smile at him when he comes home today. Make him think you haven't missed him. Primp yourself up and get a lover.

  Julia : A lover!

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Oh, an imaginary one, I mean.

• Sweet Kitty Bellairs : My reputation is in your hands.

• Sweet Kitty Bellairs : That's the trouble. A lady's virtue is in deed a nuisance!

• Lord Varney : But, let me explain. Please give me one more...

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Give you? The man I love must take!

• Julia : It's about my nightgown. I've decided to wear a more daring one! To show an inch or two of my ankle and perhaps a trifle of my bare neck.

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Oh, how positively scandalous! One would think you really had a lover.

• Julia : Will you lend me one of your nightgowns?

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : I the new French one - if they're not, eh, too daring!

• Julia : Do you hear how tenderly Sir Jasper's calling me?

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Don't be a little fool now that you have him on his knees. Make him wait for his kisses.

  Julia : Perhaps it's good advice. But I cannot.

• Sweet Kitty Bellairs : [singing]  I'm known as coquettish, Kitty Bellairs, I need you, unjust to desert you, In spite of my 30 or 40 affairs, I've lost none a bit of my virtue.

• "A Highwayman" : While we relieve the bows in your moneybags, you can relieve the cramps in your legs.

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Your language, sir!

  "A Highwayman" : I'm sorry. But, most of the ladies of my acquaintance have legs.

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : How dare you!

  "A Highwayman" : On second thought, I might even dare your lips!

• Sweet Kitty Bellairs : I feel I should yield - oh, to save this shy young gentleman's life.

• "A Highwayman" : Your answer, fair lady?

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : You can see how helpless I am.

  "A Highwayman" : Also, the ripeness of your lips!

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : How do I know you'll keep your word?

  "A Highwayman" : By the honor of a thief!

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : Then, you may steal the honor of my lips.

• Sweet Kitty Bellairs : And as for my lips, sir, I do not consider they have been kissed at all.

  "A Highwayman" : [kisses Kitty, once, twice, three times]  Now, Mistress Kitty Bellairs, consider yourself well kissed!

• Capt. O'Hara : I make myself a martyr.

  Sweet Kitty Bellairs : How? A martyr? To sit beside me is so painful then?

  Capt. O'Hara : To sit with arms, useless at my side, when I might be pressing you to me. To look longingly at what I may not touch. Your lips. Isn't that martyrdom, my lady?