Eva Dahlbeck credited as playing...
Mrs. Landborg
- Olaf Landborg: A charming speech, my dear. But it's for me to make it, not you.
- Mrs. Landborg: If I waited till you got going, I'd have dried up like an old fig years ago.
- Mrs. Landborg: The three things I need most as an artist: my model, my mother and this old hag.
- Angela von Pahlen: Shh!
- Mrs. Landborg: She can't hear. My model gives me inspiration. My mother gives me complexes. And I flirt with the hag for self-torment.
- [kisses his mother, turns back to Angela]
- Mrs. Landborg: She gives me money.
- Angela von Pahlen: You're immoral.
- Mrs. Landborg: You flatter me.
- Stellan von Pahlen: You, surely, have many other things to make you happy.
- Mrs. Landborg: There's nothing like stimulus - it makes even one's most depraved wishes seem innocent. One forgets convention, one forgets one's age. Would you like to see me intoxicated?
- Stellan von Pahlen: I am already.
- Mrs. Landborg: It's not the champagne, it's youth.
- Mrs. Landborg: You do look solemn. Idealist, no doubt, who still believe in right and wrong. Things are not black or white. Mix them and you get a dismal grey which is more realistic.
- Mrs. Landborg: I like mixtures. Champagne alone is so boring; but, add a dash of brandy and what do you get?
- Stellan von Pahlen: Me.
- Mrs. Landborg: I must taste first before I can give an opinion.
- Stellan von Pahlen: [Mrs. Landborg's head clamped between his thighs, facing his crotch] My prisoner!
- Mrs. Landborg: Even prisoners can have fun.
- Mrs. Landborg: If I had your waist, I'd never worry.
- Stellan von Pahlen: Yes, you would. It has landed me with the strangest bedfellows.
- Mrs. Landborg: Are you sure it was your waist they were after, darling?
- Mrs. Landborg: What a sweet boy. If I were you, I'd fall madly in love with myself.
- Stellan von Pahlen: It's a terrible problem for me. When I propose to myself I can never make up my mind to accept.
- Mrs. Landborg: Oh, I would. I'm sure you'd be very happy together. But supposing you were unfaithful?
- Stellan von Pahlen: I'd peep at myself through the keyhole and be mad with desire.