Café Metropole (1937)
Adolphe Menjou: Monsieur Victor
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Quotes
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : I want you to make love to that girl as if to make that girl adore you all within 10 days.
Alexis : Make love? Oh no!
Monsieur Victor Lobard : You have a perfectly free choice. Either to make love to a charming girl or to spend a few years in prison.
Alexis : Bring me the most expensive dinner you have.
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Very good, your highness.
[walks over to waiter and gives him his order]
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Serve him the regular table d'hote.
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : That's the trouble with a flawless plan! There's always a flaw in it!
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : With your permission, Mr. Ridgeway, his highness, Prince Paneiev, requests the honor of dancing with Miss Laura. It's a royal prerogative, sir. Quite without impertinence.
Joseph Ridgeway : That may be true but...
Laura Ridgeway : Tell his highness, I'd be delighted.
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Thank you, Miss Laura.
Margaret Ridgeway : Sounds like a royal pickup to me.
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Alexis : [as Alexander Brown] May I have my passport now?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : I'm sorry, but I think I'd better keep it in case you forget who you are, -- your highness.
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : [after reading his telegram] Joseph Ridgeway!
Captain : Sounds like a rich American.
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Yes. I'm very fond of him. When we first me, I was only a waiter, and he was a traveling salesman. And now, he's the greatest manufacturer of snubbers in the world.
Captain : Uh, snubbers, sir?
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : Victor, you are unquestionably the greatest man in Paris.
Monsieur Victor Lobard : I have never denied it, sir.
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Paul : [the real Prince Alexis Paneiff] Victor, Victor! How could you fail to recognize the one who used to tip you in one evening enough money to pay my salary as a waiter for the entire year?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : I can only beg pardon of your serene highness for the one blunder of my life.
Paul : Granted.
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : [Bowing] Your highness, get up! She's consented to dance with you.
Alexis : Who asked her?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : You did...
[He kicks Power's foot under the table]
Monsieur Victor Lobard : with an accent.
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Alexis : [as Alexander Brown] Do you know anything about that great American institution called taxes?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : I've been taxing Americans for a long time.
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Joseph Ridgeway : Is this fellow a Russian too?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Oh yes sir, sir.
Margaret Ridgeway : Then why isn't he driving a taxi?
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : There are times, Maxl, when I leave myself breathless with admiration.
Maxl Schinner : You leave me breathless, Victor, but not with admiration.
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Maxl Schinner : Something wrong again, Victor?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : I'm afraid, Maxl, we're going to have to get into the safe once more.
Maxl Schinner : Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no.
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Maxl.
Maxl Schinner : No.
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Open it.
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : [to Alexis] That's the trouble with a flawless plan - there's always a flaw in it. In this case there are two - your conscience and my luck.