Svengali (1931)

Donald Crisp: The Laird

Quotes 

• Trilby O'Farrell : [after Svengali has hypnotized her, making her headache disappear]  What'd he do?

  Monsieur Taffy : He hypnotized you!

  The Laird : Yeah, and don't you ever let him do it again! Those fella's can make you do anything and say anything they want. Lie, steal, *anything*!

  Billee : And then they make you kill yourself when they're done with ya'.

  The Laird : Yeah, they do that.

  Trilby O'Farrell : But he took my pain away!

  Billee : I'd rather have the pain than have it cured like that!

• Monsieur Taffy : Maestro Svengali... this has been a marvelous change since we saw him last.

  The Laird : Yeah, it's been just five years.

  Monsieur Taffy : Wonderful!

  Billee : They say that his wife is a very beautiful woman.

  Monsieur Taffy : Didn't you say that she was a Polish woman that he picked up in Russia?

  The Laird : Yeah, that's what I heard.

  Billee : Well, if she's as beautiful as they say she is, he must've hypnotized her into marrying him.

  The Laird : I'm not interested in that. What I want to know is who's giving him his baths now?

  Monsieur Taffy : Probably she is - in self defense!

  [they all laugh] 

• Monsieur Taffy : And where are you going?

  Billee : After him!

  Monsieur Taffy : Svengali's not running away from you.

  Billee : Not from me, Taffy, but from his fear of the day when his spell over Trilby will be broken, as it was for a moment last night.

  The Laird : Eh? And what will you do when you catch up with him?

  Billee : Just wait till the day comes. I'll get her back - - if I have to follow them 'round the world.

• Svengali : Well, my patriotic friend, you up yet?

  The Laird : Yeah, I'm up. And I want to be done, ya' Polish scavenger!

  Svengali : Oh, is it my fault that you Englanders have to take a bath every morning?

  The Laird : How long is it since *you* took one?

  Svengali : Eh? Not since I tripped and fell in the sewer. Ha ha!