Richard Stuart: What is this key for?
Elizabeth Sutton: Dr. Sawyer said that is belonged to your father, and if you ever asked for an explanation, he'd give it to you.
Richard Stuart: And Tony never did, of course?
Elizabeth Sutton: No.
Richard Stuart: That key, Elizabeth, was a calculated risk. A constant challenge to my memory - or lack of memory. The bait, you see. As long as I didn't inquire about it, my past was *locked.*


--Louis Jourdan (as ) in Run a Crooked Mile

Rodolphe Boulanger: I'm a fairly courageous man, Emma, but I was afraid of you.
Emma Bovary: No! Oh... oh, I ask for too much, I know it. I expected too much of you.
Rodolphe Boulanger: You asked for something that consumes while it burns - that destroys everything it touches. I didn't want to be destroyed.


--Louis Jourdan (as Rodolphe Boulanger) in Madame Bovary

Stefan Brand: [When leaving for Milan] Say Stefan, the way that you said it last night.
Lisa Berndl: ...Stefan
Stefan Brand: It's as though you've said it all your life.


--Louis Jourdan (as ) in Letter from an Unknown Woman

Stefan Brand: Have you ever shuffled faces like cards, hoping to find one that lies somewhere, just over the edge of your memory? The one you've been waiting for? Well tonight when I first saw you, and then later when I watched you in the dark, it was as though i'd found that one face among all the others. Who are you?


--Louis Jourdan (as ) in Letter from an Unknown Woman

Stefan Brand: Honor is a luxury only gentlemen can afford.


--Louis Jourdan (as ) in Letter from an Unknown Woman

Dr. Ralph Sawyer: [reading for the poetry club] In secret we met / In silence I grieve / That thy heart could forget, / Thy spirit deceive.
Richard Stuart: [interrupts and finishes] If I should meet thee / After long years, / How should I greet thee? / With silence - and tears.


--Louis Jourdan (as ) in Run a Crooked Mile

Dr. Ralph Sawyer: Richard, there's something I want you to understand: in spite of what you think, I'm your friend.
Richard Stuart: I believe you Ralph, I believe you. But you chose a heartwarming way of expressing it tonight.


--Louis Jourdan (as ) in Run a Crooked Mile

Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: [crying] I won't go back to school! I'll never go back to school! I didn't do it-it isn't fair! Why do I have to tell lies to escape a beating?
Jacques Bonnard: What-what's the matter? What happened? What is it at that school? Maman! Who beat you?
Susan Bonnard: Beating? What beating?
Jacques Bonnard: Come on, Bibi. Now, please, stop crying and tell us, what happened?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: What is this of a beating?
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: In school, the principal finds a dirty picture. It's from my 'Gay Paree' which I have taken there.
[Susan looks up at the brothers, reproachfully. The brothers look embarrassed]
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: Now, wait. They are not dirty pictures in Le Gay Paree. They are, it is true, pictures of women with few clothes, but this is not dirty! Ah, no!
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: But this is only the beginning! It is a picture of a girl, standing like so
[he gets up and imitates the pose; Susan looks shocked]
Susan Bonnard: Jacques!
Jacques Bonnard: This is not dirty.
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: But in this picture, on the head, instead of the face of the girl in the magazine, there's drawn the face of Miss Tate, my teacher.
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: This is... indelicate, but it is still not dirty.
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: But also with the pencil, many things have been added.
Uncle Louis Bonnard: THIS could be dirty.


--Louis Jourdan (as Uncle Desmond Bonnard) in The Happy Time

Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: It's not Uncle Desmond's fault! Only Peggy O'Hare's. When the principal asks her if I drew the picture, she says yes, I drew it! It's a lie, I didn't draw it!
Susan Bonnard: But why would Peggy tell a lie like that about you?
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: I don't understand! She kicks me, she trips me, she spills ink on my books!
[the brothers begin to exchange knowing smiles]
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: Why does she do this to me?
Jacques Bonnard: Ah!
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: Oh ho!
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: But why?
Jacques Bonnard: Well, Bibi, it is that Peggy wishes to be your girl.
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: My girl?
[pulling up his pant leg]
Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: Look! Black and blue!
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: Well, it is how American women show affection.
[in Jacques' ear]
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: I have been in Detroit.


--Louis Jourdan (as Uncle Desmond Bonnard) in The Happy Time

Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard: Your trip, Uncle Desmond-were there many adventures?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: Well, you know, Bibi: where Desmond's horses trot, no grass will grow.
Jacques Bonnard: What are you doing in Ottawa? Have you lost your job?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: No, the sales manager lost his. Bibi, bring us some glasses.
Jacques Bonnard: What do you mean?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: He's dead. He has unscrewed his billiard table. So the office sent for me.
Jacques Bonnard: To offer you the job?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: Well, an office, a desk, a secretary...
Jacques Bonnard: And you said yes!
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: No, I said no.
Jacques Bonnard: You said no? Why?
Uncle Desmond Bonnard: You should see the secretary.


--Louis Jourdan (as Uncle Desmond Bonnard) in The Happy Time