The Happy Time (1952)

Kurt Kasznar: Uncle Louis Bonnard

Quotes 

• Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : [crying]  I won't go back to school! I'll never go back to school! I didn't do it-it isn't fair! Why do I have to tell lies to escape a beating?

  Jacques Bonnard : What-what's the matter? What happened? What is it at that school? Maman! Who beat you?

  Susan Bonnard : Beating? What beating?

  Jacques Bonnard : Come on, Bibi. Now, please, stop crying and tell us, what happened?

  Uncle Desmond Bonnard : What is this of a beating?

  Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : In school, the principal finds a dirty picture. It's from my 'Gay Paree' which I have taken there.

  [Susan looks up at the brothers, reproachfully. The brothers look embarrassed] 

  Uncle Desmond Bonnard : Now, wait. They are not dirty pictures in Le Gay Paree. They are, it is true, pictures of women with few clothes, but this is not dirty! Ah, no!

  Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : But this is only the beginning! It is a picture of a girl, standing like so

  [he gets up and imitates the pose; Susan looks shocked] 

  Susan Bonnard : Jacques!

  Jacques Bonnard : This is not dirty.

  Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : But in this picture, on the head, instead of the face of the girl in the magazine, there's drawn the face of Miss Tate, my teacher.

  Uncle Desmond Bonnard : This is... indelicate, but it is still not dirty.

  Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard : But also with the pencil, many things have been added.

  Uncle Louis Bonnard : THIS could be dirty.

• Uncle Desmond Bonnard : What's the occasion, this time?

  Grandpere Bonnard : The Widow Latouche is waiting; I'm late.

  Uncle Desmond Bonnard : Ho ho ho! It will unscrew your billiard table!

  Uncle Louis Bonnard : Believe me, not even a young man can go out every night dancing and never sleep. Something will collapse: maybe the arteries or the veins...

  Grandpere Bonnard : The one who knows of a better way to die-will he step forward?

• Uncle Louis Bonnard : Believe me, there was a butterfly watching me on the porch.

• Uncle Louis Bonnard : Mademoiselle, to a man in my condition, the bite of a butterfly can be fatal.