Svengali (1931)

Bramwell Fletcher: Billie

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Quotes 

• Billee : You're wonderful. You're the sweetest thing I've ever known. When we're married, I want to take you to England, and to my mother... She'll be proud of you, Trilby. Proud of you as I am.

  Trilby O'Farrell : Tell me: what's England like?

  Billee : Oh, England's beautiful! Green fields, and hedgerows and hollyhocks, primroses...

  Svengali : [Svengali, who's been eavesdropping, butts in]  ... and fog, and pneumonia, and shopkeepers, and flat feet, and boiled beef and cabbage - ha, ha, ha! Trilby in England would be like a butterfly in mutton soup!

  [continues to laugh] 

• Trilby O'Farrell : [after Svengali has hypnotized her, making her headache disappear]  What'd he do?

  Monsieur Taffy : He hypnotized you!

  The Laird : Yeah, and don't you ever let him do it again! Those fella's can make you do anything and say anything they want. Lie, steal, *anything*!

  Billee : And then they make you kill yourself when they're done with ya'.

  The Laird : Yeah, they do that.

  Trilby O'Farrell : But he took my pain away!

  Billee : I'd rather have the pain than have it cured like that!

• Monsieur Taffy : Maestro Svengali... this has been a marvelous change since we saw him last.

  The Laird : Yeah, it's been just five years.

  Monsieur Taffy : Wonderful!

  Billee : They say that his wife is a very beautiful woman.

  Monsieur Taffy : Didn't you say that she was a Polish woman that he picked up in Russia?

  The Laird : Yeah, that's what I heard.

  Billee : Well, if she's as beautiful as they say she is, he must've hypnotized her into marrying him.

  The Laird : I'm not interested in that. What I want to know is who's giving him his baths now?

  Monsieur Taffy : Probably she is - in self defense!

  [they all laugh] 

• Monsieur Taffy : And where are you going?

  Billee : After him!

  Monsieur Taffy : Svengali's not running away from you.

  Billee : Not from me, Taffy, but from his fear of the day when his spell over Trilby will be broken, as it was for a moment last night.

  The Laird : Eh? And what will you do when you catch up with him?

  Billee : Just wait till the day comes. I'll get her back - - if I have to follow them 'round the world.