The Paradine Case (1947)

Charles Coburn: Sir Simon Flaquer

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• Judy Flaquer : [about Mrs. Paradine]  What's she really like?

  Sir Simon Flaquer : Fascinating, fascinating. I'm an old ruin, but she certainly brings my pulse up a beat or two.

• Sir Simon Flaquer : [about Mrs. Paradine]  I've been of the opinion that she was a woman of very low estate and very easy virtue.

• Sir Simon Flaquer : [about Mrs. Paradine]  You'll find her a strange woman with an almost mystical charm.

• Sir Simon Flaquer : I hope you'll forgive my being late. The fact is I was just dressing for dinner when your call came. I took it in a bath towel.

• Sir Simon Flaquer : The impertinence of young people today is simply appalling!

• Judy Flaquer : Men are such horrible beasts. I wish I were married to Anthony Keane for just one hour. I'd make him jump through hoops.

  Sir Simon Flaquer : I wish you were married to someone. Perhaps he could put up with your clap-trap better than I can!

• Sir Simon Flaquer : All this talk about giving up the bar is just so much poppy-cock.

• Gay Keane : Have you ever realized what a lot you can learn from photographs?

  Sir Simon Flaquer : The social footsteps of time.

• Sir Simon Flaquer : I don't know where you came by this decidedly unfeminine interest in things!

• Sir Simon Flaquer : Oh, come, come.

  Judy Flaquer : Don't come, come me!

• Sir Simon Flaquer : Tony is still in love with Gay and you know it. And why shouldn't he be?

  Judy Flaquer : If he lets Gay down, after all these years.

• Sir Simon Flaquer : Get off my lap!

  Judy Flaquer : Oh, I've never seen it to fail. Men who've been good too long, get along into the mud and want to wallow in it.

  Sir Simon Flaquer : Where did you read that? Tony's too decent for that sort of thing.

  Judy Flaquer : Really? The best men always end up with the worst women.

• Sir Simon Flaquer : If I know anything about Gay...