Nefer Quotes in The Egyptian (1954)

Nefer: Have you ever looked on a woman before?

Sinuhe: Hundreds, and in the state the gods created them. I'm a physician.

Nefer: Your name?

Sinuhe: I am called Sinuhe. He who is alone. Is this your house?

Nefer: This is my house, and I have guests every evening. I dislike being alone.

[claps her hands to summon her servant]

Nefer: Baraka!

[she handles the pendant around Sinuhe's neck]

Nefer: The inscription of the new Pharoah.

Sinuhe: His gift. I must leave now.

Nefer: Why?

Sinuhe: Because men bring you rich presents for as little as a smile.

[indicating the pendant]

Sinuhe: This is all I have.

Nefer: I have never asked a man for anything, but I ask you to stay.

Sinuhe: I can't.

Nefer: Is it because we women of Babylon have a bad reputation? Or do you find me so ugly. Do you?

Sinuhe: You're beautiful, beyond all dreams.

Nefer: Such flattery must come easily to a man who's known... hundreds of women.

Sinuhe: No one before has ever seemed to me so beautiful, so strange. When I look in your eyes, I... feel...

Nefer: What do you feel, Sinuhe?

Sinuhe: I feel the fever of Thebes in my blood, and I know that I was born to live in the sunset of the world and that nothing matters, nothing, but what I see in your eyes. It's late, I must be leaving.

Nefer: If you go filled with wine and wild thoughts, you will surely get into trouble with some designing woman.

Sinuhe: Would you care?

[he follows as she goes into her garden]

Nefer: No. I brought you here only to show you the gate in my garden wall. Later, when all of my guests have gone... I will be here by my lotus pool.

Sinuhe: Why do you tell me this?

Nefer: Perhaps because I am fond of gifts, and the greatest gift any man can bring to a woman is his innocence, which he can give only once.

Nefer: Wait. Before you touch me I must give you a warning.

Sinuhe: Warning?

Nefer: There is a reason the Goddess of Love takes the form of a cat.

Sinuhe: When I look at you I care nothing for cats or gods.

Nefer: Look Sinuhe. A cat's paws are soft. But they hide claws. A cat takes pleasure in tormenting its victim. Not until the creature is nearly dead does it show pity... and put an end to it.

Sinuhe: What has this to do with you and me?

Nefer: You've had less experience, and I must be what I am. Leave now and do not return through the gate in my wall, or you may regret it all your life.

Sinuhe: I don't even know your name.

Nefer: In their foolishness, men gave me the name which means, beautiful.

Sinuhe: Nefer. Nefer. Nefer.