Princesse Tam-Tam (1935)
Germaine Aussey: Lucie de Mirecourt
Quotes
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Lucie de Mirecourt : [First lines] Repeat that!
Max de Mirecourt : I will!
Lucie de Mirecourt : You loafer!
Max de Mirecourt : Stop humiliating me in public. That's it! I sleep in the other room.
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Lucie de Mirecourt : You have no talent whatever! I hate being the wife of a failure!
Max de Mirecourt : My talent's gone because of the life you make me lead.
Lucie de Mirecourt : It's my fault?
Max de Mirecourt : That bunch of imbeciles with whom you associate will turn me into a blithering idiot.
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Max de Mirecourt : Where can we go, if not to the country?
Coton : Far away, out of the reach of your wife. If you go far away, it'll teach her a lesson. Don't get upset, but she's right. You're drained.
Max de Mirecourt : You think so?
Lucie de Mirecourt : [Yelling from another room] Failure! Cretin!
Max de Mirecourt : There! You hear that? Let's go among the savages. The real savages! Yes, to Africa!
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Lucie de Mirecourt : For you, women are only butterflies.
Maharajah of Datane : For us, women exist to refresh the warriors. Here, they're given greater importance.
Lucie de Mirecourt : Luckily! Here, men exist in order to spoil us. They live entirely for us.
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Lucie de Mirecourt : He spoils me. That's a change! It's a different atmosphere. No more pipe-smoking writers who don't care if the smoke bothers me.
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Lucie de Mirecourt : When the Maharajah takes me out it's not like eating sauerkraut with my husband and his friends! I'm a new woman, now. I've evolved.
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Lucie de Mirecourt : A princess! He's with a black princess! And I almost regretted being courted by the Maharajah!
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Lucie de Mirecourt : I wonder who the Princess is? My husband goes out with her.
Maharajah of Datane : He'll present her in society?
Lucie de Mirecourt : Maybe in a circus!
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Lucie's Friend : You should have seen that dance!
Lucie de Mirecourt : Really?
Lucie's Friend : A savage dance in a sailor's dive!
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Lucie de Mirecourt : Her portrait - in your house? Your Princess leads a double life. She has vulgar tastes. Away from decent people, she behaves like a slut!
