The Gay Diplomat (1931)
Genevieve Tobin: Countess Diana Dorchy
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Quotes
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Captain Ivan Orloff : What else do you collect?
Countess Diana Dorchy : Oh, anything interesting I can find.
Captain Ivan Orloff : Have you any use for a young man, very tame around the house?
Countess Diana Dorchy : Tame! Oh, I should say not.
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Captain Ivan Orloff : The most amazing things in the world are found in ladies' handbags.
Countess Diana Dorchy : Oh, what a horrible libel.
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Captain Ivan Orloff : [sees the Countess walking her dog] You seem alarmingly businesslike. You can't be doing this for pleasure.
Countess Diana Dorchy : [shakes her head no] For my hips.
Captain Ivan Orloff : But, there is nothing the matter with your hips.
Countess Diana Dorchy : There must be; because, there's nothing the matter with any of the rest of me.
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Countess Diana Dorchy : It had something to do with the sins of women.
Captain Ivan Orloff : Charming. I'll listen.
Countess Diana Dorchy : Well, relax. You see it was really a big bill for stockings and...
Captain Ivan Orloff : And?
Countess Diana Dorchy : And little pink, blue, white, black and...
Captain Ivan Orloff : And?
Countess Diana Dorchy : And dozens of unmentionables.
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Countess Diana Dorchy : Ivan, I have no business loving you.
Captain Ivan Orloff : Why?
Countess Diana Dorchy : Well, it means I shall be prying you away from other women, all the rest my life.
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Captain Ivan Orloff : Will you tell me some more about you and unmentionables?
Countess Diana Dorchy : Oh, no, that's my cue to say something naughty and amusing.
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Countess Diana Dorchy : So few of us ever do mean what we say. Myself, included.
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Countess Diana Dorchy : You cheapen me in front of another woman, you excuse yourself with vague talk of duty, and then you expect me to trust you.
Captain Ivan Orloff : I do.