Regina Resnik credited as playing...
Madame Armfeldt
- Fredrika Armfeldt: [watching her grandmother play solitaire] If you cheated a little, it would come out.
- Madame Arnfeldt: Solitaire is the only thing in life that demands absolute honesty.
- Madame Arnfeldt: Don't squeeze your bosoms against the chair, dear! It'll stunt their growth, and then where would you be?
- Madame Arnfeldt: Child, I have come to give you your advice for the day.
- Fredrika Armfeldt: Yes, Grandmother?
- Madame Arnfeldt: Never marry, or even dally with, a Scandinavian.
- Fredrika Armfeldt: Why not?
- Madame Arnfeldt: They are all insane.
- Desiree Armfeldt: Hello, mother.
- Madame Arnfeldt: And to what do I owe the honor of this visit?
- Desiree Armfeldt: I just thought I'd pop out and see you both. Is that so surprising?
- Madame Arnfeldt: Yes.
- Desiree Armfeldt: You're in one of your bitchy moods, I see.
- Madame Arnfeldt: If you've come to take Fredrika back, the answer is no. I do not object to the immorality of your life; merely to its sloppiness. Since I have been tidy enough to have acquired a sizeable mansion and a fleet of servants, it seems only common sense that my granddaughter should reap the advantages of it. Isn't that so, child?
- Fredrika Armfeldt: I really don't know, Grandmother.
- Madame Arnfeldt: Oh, yes, you do, dear.
- Madame Arnfeldt: To lose a husband, or a lover or two, during one's lifetime can be vexing - but to lose one's teeth is a catastrophe!
- Madame Arnfeldt: Are you addressing me, sir - whoever you may be?
- Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm: I am, madam.
- Madame Arnfeldt: Then be so kind as to repeat yourself. Judging from the level of the conversation so far, you can hardly expect me to have been paying attention.
- Madame Arnfeldt: Child, will you do me a favor?
- Fredrika Armfeldt: Of course, Grandmother.
- Madame Arnfeldt: Will you tell me what it's all for? Having outlived my own illusions by centuries, it would be soothing at least to pretend to share some of yours.
- Fredrika Armfeldt: Grandmother, I've watched and I've watched, and I haven't noticed the night smiling.
- Madame Arnfeldt: Young eyes are not ideal for watching; they stray too much. The night has already smiled twice.
- Fredrika Armfeldt: It has? Twice? For the young and for the fools?
- Madame Arnfeldt: The smile for the fools was particularly broad tonight.