Camille (1921)

Alla Nazimova: Marguerite Gautier

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Quotes 

• Gaston Rieux : Permit me to introduce a fellow law student.

  Marguerite Gautier : A law student? He'd do better to study love!

• [repeated line] 

  Marguerite Gautier : Not until you put a jewel in my hand.

• Marguerite Gautier : Let us drink to the Count whose wine we spill - Who never objects to footing the bill - Who is very persistent in his attentions - Yet never conceals his - intentions!

• Marguerite Gautier : [singing]  A simple little girl from Bordeaux; Hair, eyes and feet - just so! Modest little ways - dear little Closet! The simple little girl from Bordeaux. Here just a year - everyone's dear! Motors, jewels, clothes - oh! oh! Are her eyes and feet - just so? Naughty little Clo - Clo from Bordeaux!

• Armand Duval : You are different! This life is unworthy of you - it is killing you!

  Marguerite Gautier : You know who - what I am? Go home - forget that we have ever met.

  Armand Duval : I wish I were a relative - your servant - a dog - that I might care for you - nurse you - make you well!

• Marguerite Gautier : My symbol, Armand - a camellia. Cherished, its beauty will excel the loveliest flower, but wound it with the slightest touch and it will die.

• Marguerite Gautier : I could never chain you to my past, Armand - drag you down - never!

• Marguerite Gautier : Do not remind me of my past! I want to forget it!

  Armand Duval's Father : You cannot - you are chained to your past!

• Marguerite Gautier : I know they have come - what does it matter? It is the end.

• Marguerite Gautier : [Last line]  Let me sleep - let me dream - I am happy.