Love in the Afternoon Movie Quotes
Ariane Chavasse
Working on a new case?
Claude Chavasse
A client from Brussels. His wife ran away to Paris with the chauffeur. I have to find them; the husband wants his car back.
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Ariane Chavasse
I always tell you what I'm doing, but you never tell me what you're doing.
Claude Chavasse
Because I love you and want to protect you from the sordid stuff I must deal with.
Ariane Chavasse
I bet when Mama was alive you told her what you were doing.
Claude Chavasse
Your Mama was a married woman.
Ariane Chavasse
I'm so glad!
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Frank Flannagan
He who loves and runs away, lives to love another day.
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Claude Chavasse
This is a great honor. Come right in, Mr. Flannagan.
Frank Flannagan
You know me?
Claude Chavasse
Do I know you? Does an art student know Picasso?
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Ariane Chavasse
You know who I am, Mr. Flannagan, I'm the girl in the afternoon.
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Ariane Chavasse
I'm against violence. In my opinion, there's too much shooting in the world, and not enough love.
Frank Flannagan
How's that, again?
Ariane Chavasse
I mean, if people loved each other more, they'd shoot each other less!
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Monsieur X
Please, monsieur, is the news good or bad?
Claude Chavasse
That depends. Is this your wife?
[Hands over a photograph]
Monsieur X
It looks like her.
Claude Chavasse
Then I regret to inform you that it looks bad.
Monsieur X
Then there IS another man!
Claude Chavasse
There is. And I regret to say that he looks good.
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[last lines]
Claude Chavasse
[voiceover]
On Monday, August 24th of this year, the case of Frank Flannagan and Ariane Chavasse came up before the superior judge in Cannes. They are now married, serving a life sentence in New York, state of New York, USA.
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Ariane Chavasse
I was about to ask you a similar question. Aren't you a little too old for that?
Frank Flannagan
That hurts! First you save a man's life, then you stab him. Is that kind?
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Ariane Chavasse
Papa, you are a cynic!
Claude Chavasse
I guess I am.
Ariane Chavasse
You enjoy your work!
Claude Chavasse
I guess I do.
Ariane Chavasse
You'd enjoyed it even if you weren't paid for it!
Claude Chavasse
I wouldn't go that far.
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Frank Flannagan
What does he export and what does he import?
Ariane Chavasse
Oh, he uh - he exports perfume and imports bananas. There's a fortune in it. Do you realize that for one bottle of perfume you get twelve bananas?
Frank Flannagan
Twelve bananas for one bottle of - doesn't sound like such a hot deal to me.
Ariane Chavasse
It's a tiny bottle of perfume and very large bananas.
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Frank Flannagan
Everything about you is perfect.
Ariane Chavasse
I'm too thin! And my ears stick out, and my teeth are crooked and my neck's much too long.
Frank Flannagan
Maybe so, but I love the way it all hangs together.
[they kiss]
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Claude Chavasse
Will Michel bring you home?
Ariane Chavasse
I suppose so.
Claude Chavasse
He's a nice boy, Michel.
Ariane Chavasse
You keep saying that.
Claude Chavasse
He comes from a very respectable family. Father and two uncles work for the government, mother plays the harp, grandfather was a missionary in French Equatorial Africa, and there hasn't been a scandal in the family since 1822.
Claude Chavasse
Yes, I have. I think I owe it to my only daughter.
Ariane Chavasse
You're spoiling me.
Claude Chavasse
If I were an Indian potentate I'd shower you with diamonds. If I were a cobbler, I'd sole your shoes, but... since I'm only a detective, all I can offer you is a detailed dossier.
Ariane Chavasse
Papa, I love you very much.
Claude Chavasse
I love you more.
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Ariane Chavasse
They're very odd people, you know. When they're young, they have their teeth straightened, their tonsils taken out and gallons of vitamins pumped into them. Something happens to their insides! They become immunized, mechanized, air-conditioned and hydromatic. I'm not even sure whether he has a heart.
Michel
What is he? A creature from outer space?
Ariane Chavasse
No. He's an American.
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[first lines]
Claude Chavasse
[voiceover]
This is the city - Paris, France. It is just like any other big city - London, New York, Tokyo - except for two little things. In Paris, people eat better. And in Paris, people make love - well, perhaps not better, but certainly more often. They do it any time, any place. On the left bank, on the right bank, and in between! They do it by day, and they do it by night. The butcher, the baker, and the friendly undertaker. They do it in motion, they do it sitting absolutely still. Poodles do it. Tourists do it. Generals do it. Once in a while even existentialists do it. There is young love, and old love. Married love, and illicit love. That is where I come in. My name is Claude Chavasse. I am what you would call a private eye.
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police chief
Madam, it would take all of the police and military and even the Boy Scouts to investigate these incidents. Certainly madam does not want boys in short pants breaking in on situations like this!
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Frank Flannagan
Goodbye, thin girl.
Ariane Chavasse
Goodbye, Mr. Flannagan.
Frank Flannagan
You promised.
Ariane Chavasse
You don't have to worry about me, Mr. Flannagan. There've been so many men before. There'll be so many after this. It's gonna be another one of those crazy years. While you're in Cannes, I'll be in Brussels with the banker. He wants to give me a Mercedes Benz, a blue one, it's my favorite color. And while you're in Athens, I'll be with the duke again in Scotland. But, I don't know whether I'll go yet, because another man's asked me to spend the summer with him in Deauville. He owns race horses. He's very rich. He's number twenty. I mean number twenty one, you're number twenty. So, you see Mr. Flannagan, I'll be perfectly all right. I'll... I'll be all right... I'll be all right!
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Ariane Chavasse
-I have my own private library.
Frank Flannagan
-What kind of a library is that?
Ariane Chavasse
-All sorts of reference works,like the World Almanac.
Frank Flannagan
-You read about me in the World Almanac?
Ariane Chavasse
-Naturally. It's very complete.It's loaded with facts and figures. Like the 10 tallest mountains,and the population of Portugal,the average annual rainfall in New Zealand...
Frank Flannagan
-What did it say about me?
Ariane Chavasse
-You're way above average, it doesn't just rain, it pours.
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Ariane Chavasse
I see nothing has changed...
Frank Flannagan
Of course not! Once you've got a winning combination, why mess around with it?
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Ariane Chavasse
He doesn't believe in love. He's above it. He considers himself invulnerable. But I think I've hit the spot.
Michel
What spot?
Ariane Chavasse
He can be jealous, and that's a very good sign.
Michel
What are you talking about?
Ariane Chavasse
They're very odd people. When they're young, they've their teeth straightened, their tonsils taken out and gallons of vitamins pumped into them. Something happens to their insides. They become immunized, mechanized, air-conditioned and hydromatic. I'm not even sure whether he has a heart.
Michel
What is he, a creature from outer space?
Ariane Chavasse
No, he's an American.
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Claude Chavasse
You do realize that this is cold-blooded murder.
Monsieur X
I do.
Claude Chavasse
And that you might spend years in jail?
Monsieur X
I may.
Claude Chavasse
Is there nothing I can say to dissuade you from this foolhardy scheme?
Monsieur X
Nothing whatsoever.
Claude Chavasse
In that case, Monsieur, you leave me no choice. I must insist on being paid as of right now.
Monsieur X
Oh, how much?
Claude Chavasse
60,000 francs... It should really be more because with Mr. Flannagan removed, there will be a sharp drop in my business.
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Claude Chavasse
You know in my profession it's like being a doctor. I have to be on call night and day. A doctor good can never rest - not until the patient is out of bed.
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Frank Flannagan
I think people should always behave as though they were between planes.
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Monsieur X
When a man sweats in the morning it's either because he's had a very good night, or a very bad night.
Monsieur X
Personally, I've had a very good night.
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Michel
Ariana, no matter how much she loves you, I love you more.
Ariane Chavasse
I'm sure of it. As a matter fact, he doesn't love me at all.
Michel
He doesn't?
Ariane Chavasse
No. At least not yet.
Michel
What do you mean, not yet?
Ariane Chavasse
He doesn't believe in it. He's above it. He considers himself invulnerable. But I think I've hit the spot.
Michel
What spot?
Ariane Chavasse
Can be jealous, and that's a very good sign.
Michel
What are you talking about?
Ariane Chavasse
They are very odd people you know. When they're young they have their teeth straightened... their tonsils taken out and gallons of vitamins pumped into them.
Ariane Chavasse
Something happens to their insides.
Ariane Chavasse
They become immunized, mechanized, air-conditioned and hydromatric.
Ariane Chavasse
I'm not even sure whether he has a heart.
Michel
What is he a creature from outer space?
Ariane Chavasse
No, he's an American.
Michel
He stares at Ariane.
Ariane Chavasse
She stares at Michel.
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Frank Flannagan
[dictating some business notes into his recorder]
Item 7: Telegram to the Mayor of Venice. Preliminary estimate on the cost of overhauling your canals is 87 million dollars. If you want my advice, drain the water out of the canals and pave them over, or those plumbing bills will kill you.
Frank Flannagan
[continues]
Item 8: Attention all Pepsi-Cola bottling plants in Great Britain. Suggested slogan, "Pop in for a Pepsi"... okay by me.
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Ariane Chavasse
[Calling the police to alert them about a jealous husband who has threatened to kill his unfaithful wife and her lover in the Ritz Hotel] You've got to stop him! You must send somebody up there immediately!
Commissaire de Police
[over the phone, rather indifferently] Madame, there are 7,000 hotels in Paris, 220,000 hotel rooms... and on a night like this, I'd say in about... 40,000 of those rooms, a similar situation... Now really, Madame, if we were to assign a policeman... to every one of these situations... No, Madame, it just staggers the imagination. It would take more than the entire Paris police force. It would take the fire department, the sanitation department... and possibly the Boy Scouts. Certainly, we don't want young boys in short pants... involved in situations like this.
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