Helene Flammarion Quotes in Midnight (1939)

Jacques Picot: You're wonderful.

Eve Peabody: You're magnificent.

Helene Flammarion: You're talking across the board.

Helene Flammarion: Odd, her coming here alone.

Marcel: I notice she didn't go home alone.

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.

Jacques Picot: I'm terribly sorry. It's difficult to concentrate on cards... sometimes.

Eve Peabody: [Referring to Jacques' dislike of Helene's feathered hat] Naturally, when you're worrying about the future of the ostrich plume.

Helene Flammarion: I don't think that's very funny.

Jacques Picot: I do.

Eve Peabody: Well, thanks.

Helene Flammarion: Poor Jacques! Oh, my soul, this is heaven. Baroness Czerny indeed! Of all the impudence. The consummate impudence! We'll take this with us.

Marcel: Now, Helene, don't let's hush this up and don't let's wait until tomorrow. Go on, let's have a lovely scandal!

Stephanie: [In Simone's hat shop] Oh, dear! If ever a woman needed a new hat, it is I. I'm being SUED - for fifty thousand francs.

Helene Flammarion: [Shocked] No!

Simone: By whom?

Stephanie: By the Archduchess of Mendola. You know that creature I had thrown out last night? And I thought it was that "Eve Peabody"? Ha! It really WAS the Archduchess of Mendola.