Aunt Alicia Quotes in Gigi (1958)

Aunt Alicia: Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art, and like a work of art it is created by artists. The greater the artist the greater the art. And what makes an artist?

Gigi: Cigars and jewelry?

Aunt Alicia: Gigi, you're from another planet.

Aunt Alicia: Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more households than infidelity.

Aunt Alicia: Liane d'Exelmans has commited suicide... again!

Aunt Alicia: Marriage is not forbidden to us, but instead of getting married at once, it sometimes happens we get married at last.

Aunt Alicia: Such stupidity is without equal in the whole history of human relations.

Aunt Alicia: Did you work hard in school today? What did you study?

Gigi: History. Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

Aunt Alicia: How depressing. What else?

Gigi: English.

Aunt Alicia: English? I suppose we must. They refuse to learn French.

[Aunt Alicia proudly displays a dazzling emerald from her collection]

Gigi: Who gave it to you, Aunt?

Aunt Alicia: A king!

Gigi: A great king?

Aunt Alicia: No, a little one. Great kings do not give very large stones.

Gigi: Why not?

Aunt Alicia: In my opinion it's because they don't feel they have to.

Gigi: Well, who does give the valuable jewels?

Aunt Alicia: Who? Oh the shy, the proud, and the social climbers, because they think it's a sign of culture. But it doesn't matter who gives them, as long as you never wear anything second-rate. Wait for the first-class jewels, Gigi. Hold on to your ideals.

Aunt Alicia: Without knowledge of jewelery, my dear Gigi, a woman is lost.

Aunt Alicia: And how is your dear father? Well, I hope.

Gaston Lachaille: He has diabetes.

Aunt Alicia: Well, I suppose if you are in the sugar business...

Aunt Alicia: Love is eternal spring in an eternal garden!

Madame Alvarez: And when eternal spring is over?

Aunt Alicia: Oh, what difference does that make?

Madame Alvarez: It makes a great deal of difference to Gigi. And may I tell you something? I am not so sure that I disagree with her.