Madame Alvarez Quotes in Gigi (1958)

Madame Alvarez: How was Monte Carlo?

Gaston Lachaille: It was a bore!

Madame Alvarez: One has to be as rich as you are, Gaston, to be bored at Monte Carlo.

Honore Lachaille: I must tell you that you upset all my plans for the weekend! I came prepared for battle, and an old wound...

[points to his heart]

Honore Lachaille: ...prevented me from charging.

Madame Alvarez: I don't think she was your type anyway, Honore.

Honore Lachaille: You were watching me?

Madame Alvarez: Force of habit. When a pretty woman came by I always had to watch you.

[last lines]

[after a long while, Gaston returns to Madame Alvarez's apartment]

Gaston Lachaille: May I come in?

[Gigi shrinks into a corner, hoping to be spared]

Madame Alvarez: Please, Gaston... no papers... no scandal.

Gaston Lachaille: Madame, will you do me the honour, the favour... give me the infinite joy of bestowing on me... Gigi's hand in marriage?

[Gigi, filled with relief and joy, draws to Gaston's side]

Madame Alvarez: [smiles] Thank Heaven!

["Thank Heaven for Little Girls" plays again]

Honore Lachaille: I'll tell you about that blue villa, Mamita. I was so much in love with you, I wanted to marry you. Yes, it's true. I was beginning to think of marriage. Imagine, marriage, ME! Oh, no! I was really desperate! I had to do something. And what I did was the soprano!

Madame Alvarez: Thank you, Honore. That was the most charming and endearing excuse for infidelity I've ever heard.

Gaston Lachaille: I brought you some caramels.

Gigi: Thank you, Gaston.

Madame Alvarez: Gaston, you spoil her so.

Gaston Lachaille: The champagne is for you.

Madame Alvarez: You spoil me too.

[discussing Gigi's lessons with Aunt Alicia]

Madame Alvarez: Last week she taught her to eat cold lobster to perfection.

Gaston Lachaille: What in heaven's name for?

Madame Alvarez: She says it's extremely useful.

Gaston Lachaille: I must consider my next move very carefully. All of Paris is watching me.

Madame Alvarez: Gaston, what are you talking about? The whole world is watching you!

[Gastone brings some champagne for Mamita]

Gigi: Can I take a glass of champagne, Mamita?

Madame Alvarez: Have you lost your mind, Gigi? Of course not!

[heads towards the kitchen; Gaston quickly slides his glass over to Gigi]

[Gaston, outraged by the comments made about Gigi, drags her out of Maxim's]

Gigi: But I don't want to go home, Gaston! Let me go! What did I do, Gaston? What did I do?

[Gaston arrives at Madame Alverez's home, angrily raps on the door and throws Gigi into Alvarez's shocked arms]

Madame Alvarez: Gigi! What happened?

[Gaston leaves; Gigi bursts into tears]

Honore Lachaille: You wore a gown of gold.

Madame Alvarez: I was in blue.

Honore Lachaille: Am I getting old?

Madame Alvarez: Oh, no, not you! How strong you were, how young and gay / A prince of love, in every way!

Honore Lachaille: Ah, yes, I remember it well...

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.

[singing]

Gigi: What time tomorrow will we get there? / Can I watch you play roulette? / May I stay up late for supper? / Is it awfully awfully upper?

Madame Alvarez: Gigi, you'll drive us wild! / Stop, you silly child!

Gigi: Is everybody celebrated, / full of sin and dissipated? / Is it hot enough to blister? / Will I be your little sister?

Madame Alvarez: Gigi, you are absurd! / Now not another word! Gigi!

Gaston Lachaille: Let her gush and jabber, / let her be enthused! / I cannot remember / when I have been more amused!

Madame Alvarez: Stop it!

Gigi: The night they invented champagne, / it's plain as it can be / they thought of you and me. / The night they invented champagne, / they absolutely knew / that all we'd want to do / is fly to the sky on champagne / And shout to everyone in sight / that since the world began / no woman or a man / has ever been as happy as we are tonight!

Gaston Lachaille: The night they invented champagne...

[pops a cork]

Gigi, Gaston Lachaille: ...It's plain as it can be / they thought of you and me. / The night they invented champagne / they absolutely knew / that all we'd want to do / Is fly to the sky on champagne / and shout to everyone in sight

[pops another cork]

Gigi, Gaston Lachaille: That since the world began / no woman or a man / has ever been as happy as we are tonight!

[a cork is popped]

Honore Lachaille: We met at nine.

Madame Alvarez: We met at eight.

Honore Lachaille: I was on time.

Madame Alvarez: No, you were late.

Honore Lachaille: Ah, yes, I remember it well...

Honore Lachaille: We dined with friends!

Madame Alvarez: We dined alone.

Honore Lachaille: A tenor sang.

Madame Alvarez: A baritone.

Honore Lachaille: Ah, yes, I remember it well...

Honore Lachaille: That dazzling April moon!

Madame Alvarez: There was none that night, / and the month was June.

Honore Lachaille: That's right, that's right...

Madame Alvarez: It warms my heart to know / you remember still the way you do.

Honore Lachaille: Ah, yes, I remember it well...

Honore Lachaille: How often I've thought of that Friday...

Madame Alvarez: Monday...

Honore Lachaille: ...night, when we had our last rendezvous. / And somehow I've foolishly wondered if you might by some chance be thinking of it too? That carriage ride...

Madame Alvarez: You walked me home.

Honore Lachaille: You lost a glove.

Madame Alvarez: I lost a comb.

Honore Lachaille: Ah, yes, I remember it well...

Honore Lachaille: That brilliant sky.

Madame Alvarez: We had some rain.

Honore Lachaille: Those Russian songs.

Madame Alvarez: From sunny Spain.

Honore Lachaille: Ah, yes, I remember it well...