Marcel Dalio credited as playing...
Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest
- Robert de la Cheyniest: Corneille! Put an end to this farce!
- Corneille, le majordome: Which one, your lordship?
- Robert de la Cheyniest: [to Schumacher] I have no choice but to dismiss you. It breaks my heart, but I can't expose my guests to your firearms. It may be wrong of them, but they value their lives.
- Geneviève de Marras: Please give me an answer.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: No, I don't love you anymore. I'm fond of you, but...
- Geneviève de Marras: But I bore you.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: The words you come up with, my dear.
- Geneviève de Marras: The right ones. I give up. You can fight hatred, but not boredom. Well, the whole thing's getting to me, too. Seeing you play shepherd to your Viennese shepherdess, makes me want to yawn.
- Octave: You know what? I feel like skedaddling. I want to disappear down a hole.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: What for?
- Octave: So as not to have to figure out what's right and what's wrong.
- Geneviève de Marras: Let's say we do split up. What would change with Christine?
- Robert de la Cheyniest: Why, everything.
- Geneviève de Marras: Nothing! She's remained so Austrian. A Parisian woman would understand. Not her. If she found out, it's not our affair she'd hold against you, but the fact that you lied from the start. She'd never forgive you.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: I know.
- Geneviève de Marras: Believe it or not, you mean a lot to me. I don't know if it's love or force of habit, but if you leave me, I'll be very unhappy, and I don't want to be.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: Where are you going?
- Geneviève de Marras: To dance!
- Robert de la Cheyniest: You can dance in bed.
- Geneviève de Marras: Yes, my love. I'm going to bed.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: Fine. So you'll tell Christine everything. To what end?
- Geneviève de Marras: To hurt you.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: Charming of you!
- Geneviève de Marras: I hate suffering alone. Misery loves company.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: Ever wish you were an Arab?
- Marceau, le braconnier: No. What for?
- Robert de la Cheyniest: For the harem. Only Muslims show a little logic in matters of male-female relations. They're made like us.
- Marceau, le braconnier: If you say so.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: They always have a favorite. But they don't kick the others out and hurt their feelings.
- Marceau, le braconnier: If you say so.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: I don't want to hurt anyone, especially a woman. It's the story of my life.
- Marceau, le braconnier: Whether it's to have a woman, leave her or hold on to her, first I make her laugh. That way, her guard's down and you have your way with her. Why don't give it a try?
- Robert de la Cheyniest: Because it takes talent.
- Marceau, le braconnier: Naturally.
- Robert de la Cheyniest: My good man, I have to ask you to leave too. I can't dismiss Schumacher and leave you here with his wife. It'd be immoral, you understand?
- Robert de la Cheyniest: Know what our little athletic display reminded me of? I sometimes read articles in the papers about some Italian roadwork trying to seduce a Polish laborer's wife. It ends in a stabbing. I never believed such things happened. But they do!