Mathieu Quotes in That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Mathieu: My Conchita...

Mathieu: I respect love too much to go seeking it in the back streets.

Richard Courtois: You're a melancholy fellow, Mathieu. Get yourself smartened up and we'll go to a brothel.

Mathieu: Brothel?

Richard Courtois: Well, there won't be one in this piss-arse town, but there'll be one in L'Avignon.

Mathieu: Maitre, this is the brothel.

Richard Courtois: What?

Mathieu: The Abville Inn is the Abville Whorehouse.

Richard Courtois: [incredulous] What, that skinny girl? I never gave her a sous!

Mathieu: They put it down as the "lodging tax."

Cédric: [at the beach] Hey, Mathieu.

Mathieu: Please go away.

Cédric: Why?

Mathieu: So they don't see us together.

Cédric: Are you ashamed or what?

Mathieu: No, I just don't want any trouble.

Cédric: What trouble?

Mathieu: Can't you just leave?

Cédric: You think I'm stupid?

Mathieu: Just fuck off!

Cédric: What, fuck off?