Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

Charles Granval: Édouard Lestingois

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Quotes 

• Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne : Why have a piano if no one plays it?

  Édouard Lestingois : Even so, we have a piano because we are respectable people.

• Édouard Lestingois : The man who spits in Balzac's "Physiology of Marriage" is less than nothing to me.

  Priape Boudu : Who is that man?

  Édouard Lestingois : Ask my wife.

• [first lines] 

  Édouard Lestingois : Anne-Marie, you are like the nymphs. You are as graceful as they are and could frolic in mossy glades, drink from the springs, and dance naked under the moon on summer nights. Bacchus would have presided at the nuptials of Priapus Lestingois and his Chloë, Anne-Marie.

• Édouard Lestingois : My wife is incapable of bringing the joys of the flesh alive in me. Is that any reason for me to renounce them? As long as the gods grant me the strength and inclination, and as long as your indulgent youth consents, I shall be your grateful lover, my little nymph, and my pipes shall laud till their last breath the glory of Eros.

• Édouard Lestingois : You are lucky, Anne-Marie, but you deserve to be, because you're pretty.

  Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne : I love you, Mr. Lestingois.

  Édouard Lestingois : And I'm lucky too.

  [kiss] 

  Édouard Lestingois : Run along now. Go make the soup.

• Édouard Lestingois : Don't forget to salt the broth.

  Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne : I won't forget! I'll be thinking about tonight!

  Édouard Lestingois : Expectation is the indispensable seasoning for the weariness of daily chores.

• Édouard Lestingois : She's charming. But last night I fell asleep before I could go join her. No doubt about it, I'm growing old. My pipes are weary, and soon some shepherd will lure her with his youthful flute.

• Édouard Lestingois : You like Voltaire?

  L'étudiant : Yes.

  Édouard Lestingois : You've good reason to.

  L'étudiant : He's the one with good reason.

• Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne : You're looking at women. I'm jealous.

  Édouard Lestingois : You shouldn't be. Jealousy is horrid, a sentiment beneath both your intelligence and your beauty.

• Édouard Lestingois : I'll give you one ticket and keep the other. The grand prize is 100,000 francs. Can you imagine having 100,000 francs? What would you do if you won 100,000 francs.

  Priape Boudu : I'd buy a bicycle.

• Édouard Lestingois : You're not going out like that, are you?

  Priape Boudu : Why?

  Édouard Lestingois : Your shoes aren't shined.

  Priape Boudu : My shoes have to shine?

  Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne : Of course, you dummy.

• Édouard Lestingois : He spat on Balzac.

  Emma Lestingois : He respects nothing.

• Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne : I'm leaving before you make me cry.

  Édouard Lestingois : Tears make you look so pretty that I wouldn't regret it.