Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Miriam Hopkins: Lily

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Quotes 

• Lily Vautier : You see, mother is dead.

  Mariette Colet : Yes, that's the trouble with mothers. First you get to like them, and then they die.

• Gaston Monescu : Well, what did she want?

  Lily Vautier : You. And she's willing to pay as high as 50 francs.

• Lily Vautier : I have a confession to make to you: Baron, you are a crook. You robbed the gentleman in 253, 5, 7 and 9. May I have the salt?

  Gaston Monescu : Please!

  Lily Vautier : Thank you.

  Gaston Monescu : The pepper too?

  Lily Vautier : Oh, no, thank you.

  Gaston Monescu : You're very welcome. Countess, believe me, before you left this room, I would have told you everything. And let me say this, with love in my heart: Countess, you are a thief. The wallet of the gentleman in 253, 5, 7 and 9 is in your possession. I knew it very well when you took it out of my pocket. In fact, you tickled me. But your embrace was so sweet.

• Lily Vautier : Well, I'll leave you alone with that lady. But if you behave like a gentleman, I'll break your neck.

• Lily Vautier : This woman has more than jewelry.

  Gaston Monescu : [sighs loudly] 

  Lily Vautier : Did you ever take a good look at her... ummm...

  Gaston Monescu : Certainly.

  Lily Vautier : They're alright, aren't they?

  Gaston Monescu : Beautiful. What of it? Let me tell you something - as far as I'm concerned her whole sex appeal is in that safe.

• Lily Vautier : Darling, remember, you are Gaston Monescu. You are a crook. I want you as a crook. I love you as a crook. I worship you as a crook. Steal, swindle, rob. Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos.

• Lily Vautier : You know, when I first saw you, I thought you were an American.

  Gaston Monescu : Thank you.

  Lily Vautier : Someone from another world, so entirely different. Oh, one gets so tired of one's own class - princes and counts and dukes and kings! Everybody talking shop. Always trying to sell you jewelry. Then I heard your name and found out you were just one of us.

  Gaston Monescu : Disappointed?

  Lily Vautier : No, proud. Very proud.

• Lily Vautier : Don't you remember the day you took that Chinese vase from the Royal Palace? And you made it into a lamp for my night table.

  Gaston Monescu : I remember the lamp, I remember the night table... . and I remember the night.

• Lily Vautier : [fuming]  I wouldn't fall for another man if he was the biggest crook on earth!

• Lily Vautier : Gaston, I know you're awfully busy, and, well, I don't wanna trouble you, but she has one little necklace. You know the one with the seed pearls? It's so quiet and simple. It'd go just beautifully with my neck.

• Lily Vautier : Two more days and we'd have had 750,000 francs more.

  Gaston Monescu : We'll have to take what's here. A bird in hand is worth two in jail.

• Lily Vautier : I know you love me. Why don't you say something? Come on, be brilliant. Talk yourself out of it. Bluff yourself in. Shut up, you liar, you!