Aunt Alicia: And how is your dear father? Well, I hope.
Gaston Lachaille: He has diabetes.
Aunt Alicia: Well, I suppose if you are in the sugar business...


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi

Aunt Alicia: Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more housholds than infidelity.


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi

Aunt Alicia: Liane d'Exelmans has commited suicide... again!


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi

Aunt Alicia: Such stupidity is without equal in the whole history of human relations.


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi

Aunt Alicia: Without knowledge of jewelery, my dear Gigi, a woman is lost.


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi

[Aunt Alicia proudly displays a dazzling emerald from her collection]
Gigi: Who gave it to you, Aunt?
Aunt Alicia: A king!
Gigi: A great king?
Aunt Alicia: No, a little one. Great kings do not give very large stones.
Gigi: Why not?
Aunt Alicia: In my opinion it's because they don't feel they have to.
Gigi: Well, who does give the valuable jewels?
Aunt Alicia: Who? Oh the shy, the proud, and the social climbers, because they think it's a sign of culture. But it doesn't matter who gives them, as long as you never wear anything second-rate. Wait for the first-class jewels, Gigi. Hold on to your ideals.


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi

[last lines]
Larita Filton: [to news photographers] Shoot! There's nothing left to kill.


--Isabel Jeans (as ) in Easy Virtue

Aunt Alicia: Did you work hard in school today? What did you study?
Gigi: History. Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
Aunt Alicia: How depressing. What else?
Gigi: English.
Aunt Alicia: English? I suppose we must. They refuse to learn French.


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi

Aunt Alicia: Marriage is not forbidden to us, but instead of getting married at once, it sometimes happens we get married at last.


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi

Aunt Alicia: Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art, and like a work of art it is created by artists. The greater the artist the greater the art. And what makes an artist?
Gigi: Cigars and jewelry?
Aunt Alicia: Gigi, you're from another planet.


--Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi