Madame X (1929)

Mitchell Lewis: Colonel Hanby

Quotes 

• Jacqueline : He's just a little boy. And one must always forgive little boys anything.

  Oriental Doctor : Little boys playing with matches have started many a fire.

  Colonel Hanby : [laughs]  I'm just beginning to see things. So, so, he was making love to you, eh? Right here on my own porch. Oh, that's good! That's splendid. And you didn't like it, eh?

  Jacqueline : Ah, give me a cigarette.

• Colonel Hanby : Doctor, you're like all other Orientals, always thinking of the past. Well, why think of the past, when her present is so attractive.

• Colonel Hanby : There you are and drunk - at nine o'clock in the morning.

  Jacqueline : Well, one might just as well be drunk at nine as at ten.

  Colonel Hanby : I'm sick of you! Sick of you, do you hear? When I picked you up in China, you were something to look at. Now, what are ya?

  Jacqueline : You don't like my looks, huh? Well, I've seen pleasanter things to look at than you! See! No matter what I look like, I'm too good for you - you brutish swine!