Romance (1930)
Gavin Gordon: Tom Armstrong
Quotes
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Tom Armstrong : Do you know what's in this little box? Romance, my boy. The perfume of romance.
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Tom Armstrong : After all, I am your rector and I, I feel I've got to, now, this Madame Cavillini...
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Madame Rita Cavallini : You see my flowers, here. So fresh and beautiful.
Tom Armstrong : You're crushing them!
Madame Rita Cavallini : Oh, what does it matter? They were born to die. Our meeting here tonight, what is it but a bunch of flowers that we love and smell and throw away. Why should we take them home with us and watch them die?
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Madame Rita Cavallini : I forgot that you're a clergyman.
Tom Armstrong : And I forgot that you were a golden nightingale.
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Madame Rita Cavallini : Why speak about next year. That's so far away.
Tom Armstrong : In my profession, one has to think a great deal about things that are far away.
Madame Rita Cavallini : That's very foolish.
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Tom Armstrong : Then it is true!
Madame Rita Cavallini : Oh-no-no.
Tom Armstrong : Will you swear it!
Madame Rita Cavallini : Why, yes.
Tom Armstrong : Then, put your hand on my mother's testament.