Georges Flammarion Quotes in Midnight (1939)

Georges Flammarion: The ground has just opened under our feet.

Eve Peabody: Well... and me all set to jump for that tub of butter.

Georges Flammarion: We've landed in something, all right, but it's not butter.

Eve Peabody: Here they come.

Georges Flammarion: I'll stand by you as best I can.

Helene Flammarion: Ladies and gentlemen, may I have a word, please. I want to tell you something which I think will both interest and amuse you. Under our roof tonight, we have, as a guest, a person claiming one of the oldest names in the Almanach de Gotha.

[Crowd mutters]

Helene Flammarion: I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Hungarian aristocracy, but let me assure you that in all middle Europe there is no family...

Servant: Baron Tibor Czerny.

[Crowd gasps and mutters loudly]

Stephanie: Well.

Eve Peabody: When I married, I didn't realize that in the Czerny family there was a streak of... shall we say, eccentricity? And yet, I had warning. Why else should his grandfather have sent me, as an engagement present, one roller skate - covered with Thousand Island dressing?

Jacques Picot: [Shocked] What?

Georges Flammarion: Of course, of course I'd forgotten! The Czerny's are all like that. You know, I met an old aunt - the Countess Antonia. I thought she was an Indian. It turned out, that she used paprika instead of face powder.

Georges Flammarion: [Guests are filing out of Stephanie's musical soiree] Did you ever find that "Eve Peabody"?

Stephanie: Finally. I had her thrown out. She was a *horrible* old woman. Roger found her in the powder room. Imagine! You know, she claimed to be the Archduchess of Mendola.