- Charles Theverner: She's after my money. Everybody is after my money.
- Dupin: You must've been after it yourself to have acquired so much.
- Dupin: It says in Timothy, that the love of money is the root of all evil.
- Flaherty: It's not that I love it, sir, it's just that it's a necessary evil. And to show you I have indeed read the book, it says in Ecclesiastes "Money answereth all things".
- Dupin: In bitterness, Flaherty, it was said in bitterness.
- Flaherty: That's the way I was asking for it.
- Mrs. Flynn, the housekeeper: You read like an actor... and you drink like one. Would you take advice from the likes of me?
- Dupin: Ma'am, I take advice as easily as I take a drink. The only trouble with me is I've never been able to make good use of either.
- Mrs. Inness, landlady: It's the first of the month, you know.
- Dupin: I can understand your excitement, it happens only once every thirty days.
- Dupin: The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
- The Pharmacist: I'm not a fox.
- Dupin: ...now you're no longer sleeping. Open up! This is vital, a matter of life and death.
- Madeline Minot: They say he is very rich.
- Dupin: They say worst than that. They he's a facsimile of the devil.
- Flaherty: I know that this is a free country and I got the wine for you. I'd be happy to give it to you. But, I got to pay for it. So, naturally, I got to sell it myself. That's what's known as: business. I didn't invent it, but I got to live like the rest of the world does
- Dr. Roland: I can keep him alive only so long as he wishes to exist.
- Lorna Bounty: You flatter yourself.
- Dr. Roland: Miss Bounty, I told him one glass of sherry. Just one glass. He's consuming the entire decanter. It's suicide. Pure suicide.
- Lorna Bounty: In that case, he has been committing suicide, as you put it, for 40 years.
- Madeline Minot: Where can I buy a postage in order to mail a letter?
- Joseph Martin: I would say the Post Office, Mademoiselle.
- Joseph Martin: How do you look to yourself?
- Lorna Bounty: A man's eyes are a better test than any mirror. How do I look to you? Go ahead, tell me. I want to know.
- Dupin: Could I serve you some tea?
- Lorna Bounty: Tea?
- Lorna Bounty: Well, some wine, perhaps?
- Dupin: You would be preserving my life.
- Lorna Bounty: A sufficient reason.
- Dupin: There are also sufficient reasons not to preserve it. But, I am not the man to disclose them.
- Lorna Bounty: That's understandable.
- Lorna Bounty: Have you known her long?
- Dupin: That depends on how you look at time.
- Lorna Bounty: I don't look at it with much favor - being a woman.
- Dupin: A very beautiful one.
- Joseph Martin: You act as if you've seen him before.
- Lorna Bounty: No. But I think I'll see him again.
- Lorna Bounty: Theverner made me feel I could be a great actress. In time, I would be Ophelia and Juliet.
- Dupin: And Lady MacBeth?
- Dupin: A lovely girl is an uncommon sight in a place like this. In the face of loveliness, *all* men feel a little foolish.
- Charles Theverner: [to Mlle Minot] You are very lovely. I say this now as an old man who is weary of lying.
- Dupin: A connaisseur of wine, women, and wit. Now he's an ancient ruin with one arm paralyzed and one foot in the grave.
- Charles Theverner: [to Mlle Minot] You will stay the night. And tomorrow, you will talk to me again and I will look at you without listening.
- Charles Theverner: Tell me about Paris. Who are the great names now? Who paints? Who writes the poems?
- Madeline Minot: Delacroix, Daumier, Gautier, Baudelaire.
- Lorna Bounty: He is very old and very ill and last night he drank more wine than is good for him.
- Dupin: You can't imagine how impossible that sounds to me.
- Lorna Bounty: I don't have to imagine it. I can see it.
- Lorna Bounty: If I told you something flattering, would you believe it?
- Dupin: Only if it were flattering.
- Lorna Bounty: Then I'll be frank about it. I can't remember when I've met a man who intrigues me as much as you do.
- Dupin: Do you forget easily?
- Lorna Bounty: No, I don't.
- Dupin: Then I'll be equally frank and tell you that I - find you equally intriguing.
- Lorna Bounty: Well, at least we've broken the ice.
- Dupin: Now we can drowned together.
- Charles Theverner: You are a poet and money means nothing to you. Beauty. Beauty attracts you, eh? And this girl is very pretty. Is that it?
- Dupin: She's as courageous as she is foolish. This comes from a faith in life, Theverner. Something you and I both lacks. A dream that is not for sale - and never can be laughed away.
- Lorna Bounty: If I were your friend, I would help you. You owe money at the Tavern. You can't pay your rent.
- Dupin: A bribe?
- Lorna Bounty: That's not a very *friendly* thing to say.
- Dupin: A gift then.
- Lorna Bounty: Couldn't we call it a loan?
- Dupin: You've discovered both my weaknesses.
- Lorna Bounty: To understand another's weaknesses, is the first rule of friendship.
- Dupin: The second?
- [moves Lorna in close]
- Lorna Bounty: To understand another's strengh.
- [Dupin kisses Lorna]
- Lorna Bounty: That was very impulsive.
- Dupin: Under the circumstances, it was inevitable. I think I'd better say good night.
- Lorna Bounty: I suppose that was inevitable too.
- Dupin: Do you know what you're doing?
- Madeline Minot: What am I doing?
- Dupin: You're dancing in a public place. You're no longer respectable.