Maurice Clavell Quotes in Come September (1961)

Robert L. Talbot: I want that villa put up for *sale*! And if you can't *sell* it, *burn* it! I've *had* it with this country!

Maurice Clavell: Sir, this is not time to be burning your villas behind you. She loves you. She wants to marry you!

Robert L. Talbot: Yeah, she has a funny way of showing it!

Maurice Clavell: Italian women are emotional. Sh- sh... she been hurt. She wants time to think.

Robert L. Talbot: Well, I wanna go back to America... where people get married *without* thinking!

Maurice Clavell: A martini for breakfast?

Robert L. Talbot: It's great for the morning after, especially if there hasn't been a night before.

Maurice Clavell: I'll take your rooms to your bag.

Robert L. Talbot: [looking at his villa] I said, isn't that a new color?

Maurice Clavell: [chuckles] Houses are like women; The older they get, the more paint they need.

Robert L. Talbot: Mr Clavell!

Maurice Clavell: Sir?

Robert L. Talbot: You are to go with them and you are not to let those girls out of your sight.

Maurice Clavell: Sir, I can't ride a motor scooter.

Robert L. Talbot: Then learn.

Maurice Clavell: I have no sense of balance. I was the only child that ever had to be strapped to his tricycle.