Nestor Patou Quotes in Irma la Douce (1963)

Irma La Douce: A painter once lived here. Poor guy, he was starving. Tried everything, even cut his ear off.

Nestor Patou: Van Gogh?

Irma La Douce: No, I think his name was Schwartz.

Nestor Patou: Why don't we just tell him the truth?

Moustache: The truth? That's dynamite.

Nestor Patou: But I'm innocent.

Moustache: The jails are full with innocent people because they told the truth.

Irma La Douce: You know, I'm sort of glad about that girl in Dijon, with the cough.

Nestor Patou: You are?

Irma La Douce: Because frankly, in the police van I thought that you'd never in your life, uh...

Nestor Patou: Oh, she wasn't the only girl. I've had more than one girl.

Irma La Douce: How many?

Nestor Patou: Altogether? Oh, let me see...

Irma La Douce: Three?

Nestor Patou: Not as many as that.

Irma La Douce: You oughta be ashamed of yourself, scaring a poor little dog like that.

Nestor Patou: They oughta take that dog away from you, you're not a fit mother.

Nestor Patou: Now I'm mad. Now I'm really mad. And when I'm mad, I'm like a tiger!