Journal of a Crime (1934)

Ruth Chatterton: Francoise Moliet

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Quotes 

• Dinner Guest : The way I look at it, Mr. Attorney General, there will be crimes of passion as long as there is passion.

  Germaine Cartier : In my opinion, madame, the urge to kill has roots in hatred, rather than in passion or in love. Hatred in it's most severe form. Jealousy. Don't you agree with me?

  Francoise Moliet : Well, you may be right, Mr. Attorney General. I don't know, but, a woman - or a man - may have a deeper motive for killing than jealousy or even love. A human being could kill because she herself has first been killed. Before she kills, the other two, the victim and her accomplice, must have killed her soul. Murdered it. A soul that murders in it's turn.

• Paul Moliet : Fiend.

  Francoise Moliet : What did you expect? That I'd get up in the middle of dinner and say to my friends, this afternoon I killed a woman my husband loved.

  Paul Moliet : Fiend.

  Francoise Moliet : She'd had 10 or 20 before him. She finally found one more stupid than the rest of them.

  Paul Moliet : Fiend.

  Francoise Moliet : He was willing to pay for her favors, not with jewels or money, but, with my heart, with my love, my life!

• Francoise Moliet : I'm awfully stupid.

  Paul Moliet : No, you're not. You're intelligent, most intelligent. I'm counting on that. That's why I...

  Francoise Moliet : Oh, I much rather you found me foolish and silly and desirable.

• Francoise Moliet : No, no, no. Don't - don't tell me anything tonight. Tonight is for laughter and dancing and loving. It's not for bad news. Besides, if you have bad news, you can't sleep and you wake up the next morning and you realize it wasn't so bad after all. Besides, I'm so happy tonight.

• Francoise Moliet : I'm not in the habit of carrying firearms.

• Paul Moliet : You're not going to ask were I found it?

  Francoise Moliet : I'm not asking anything.

• Germaine Cartier : What did he say?

  Francoise Moliet : He said the number of love crimes grows daily in Germany.

  Germaine Cartier : Really?

  Herr Winterstein : Jawohl!

  Dinner Guest : And in France, Mr. Attorney General?

  Germaine Cartier : A love crime in France, my dear madame, is no longer ordinary currency. It's inflation!

• Paul Moliet : What kind of woman are you, anyway?

  Francoise Moliet : I'm your wife.

• [last lines] 

  Francoise Moliet : Mountains.

  Paul Moliet : Mountains.

  Francoise Moliet : The Sea.

  Paul Moliet : The Sea. - - The Sun.

  Francoise Moliet : The Sun. - - Dear.