Jean-Pierre Léaud credited as playing...
Antoine Doinel
- [English subtitled version]
- Antoine Doinel: [to Alphonse as he is about to head off to music camp] If you practice hard, you'll be a great musician.
- Alphonse Doinel: What if I don't?
- Antoine Doinel: If you don't, you'll wind up a music critic.
- Christine Doinel: That's too much, Antoine - to forget the day you're getting divorced! No one would believe it.
- Antoine Doinel: Yet the unbelievable is sometimes true.
- Antoine Doinel: I gave in to temptation. But that's the last time.
- Sabine Barnérias: It is?
- Antoine Doinel: As of today, I'm walking the path to chastity.
- Sabine Barnérias: Oh, come here. Come here like last night.
- Antoine Doinel: Last night was last night.
- Sabine Barnérias: I've wanted to meet your son forever.
- Antoine Doinel: Sabine, this isn't the time to confuse Alphonse with that.
- Sabine Barnérias: You always have to complicate things. I'm sure your wife - ex-wife - would agree.
- Antoine Doinel: My life's split into pieces and I can't change it overnight.
- Sabine Barnérias: All your little intrigues and quirks tire me out.
- Antoine Doinel: Since the divorce, Alphonse meets too many strangers anyway...
- Sabine Barnérias: Strangers? Thanks a lot! Listen, if I'm just a hooker to you, then say so, and pay me for each time we make love.
- Colette Tazzi: You haven't changed. You're as self-centered as ever. For example, you saw the porter give me this message. Were you the slightest bit curious?
- Antoine Doinel: Mere discretion, Colette.
- Colette Tazzi: No! Sheer indifference, Antoine! Who have we been talking about for two hours? You! Mere discretion again, I suppose.
- [wets her lips]
- Colette Tazzi: I know you don't care, but I'll tell you anyway. This message is from that ape I ran into in the corridor. He's offered me 1,000 francs to sleep with him tonight. What should I do? Times are hard. I've got a law degree, but I'm out of work. So like other women with half-decent looks, I get by somehow. Night trains are my specialty! Of course, the porter gets 10%. Get the picture? Our little chat is costing me a thousand francs. So!
- Antoine Doinel: I think I'd better be going.
- Antoine Doinel: Mr. Lucien said my mother was like a little bird. A little bird? Were we talking about the same person? But Mrs. Doinel did teach me one thing: Love is all that matters.
- Mère de Colette: Do you remember the first time we met?
- Antoine Doinel: Yes, it was at the Edith Piaf concert.
- Monsieur Lucien: It wasn't wasn't easy getting a place for her in the Montmartre cemetery, but I insisted, because she loved this neighborhood. She'd be happy to know she's next to Marguerite Gauthier. You know who that is?
- Antoine Doinel: No, no. I don't think I do, Monsieur Lucien.
- Monsieur Lucien: Marguerite Gauthier! "La Dame aux camélias" by Alexandre Dumas.
- Antoine Doinel: Oh, yes! I thought she was made up.
- Monsieur Lucien: No, she really existed.