The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

Alison Skipworth: Senora Perez

Quotes 

• Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar : What is the exact relationship of this gentleman?

  Senora Perez : Your Excellency. A cousin.

• Senora Perez : Oh! Oh, and plenty of garlic. Is it paid for?

  Concha Perez : And sausage, Mother. Try it. And look, Mama. Gold.

  Senora Perez : How did you earn all that, Concha?

  Concha Perez : I, earn anything? Don't be foolish, Mother.

  Senora Perez : Your Excellency, if my poor husband were alive - he has been in the enjoyment of God for the past fifteen years - he'd have beaten her black and blue. But don't be deceived by her language. My daughter is a good girl. Oh, we could be rich, my daughter and I. Oh, we could have mules and necklaces, and live in the country. But wickedness has never spent a night here. How I worry when I see my daughter leave in the morning.

  Concha Perez : How can you say that, Mother, when you sleep all day?

  Senora Perez : There. You see what bad examples these factory girls are? Oh, the ugly words she must hear. If my daughter had listened to them, she would have gone wrong long ago. What makes young girls go wrong, Your Excellency, is the advice of women, not the eyes of men.

  Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar : There's a cure for all ills, señora.

  Senora Perez : [Accepting coins]  Your Highness, how can I thank you?

  Concha Perez : I'll take care of that, Mama. I'll thank him. You don't need to bother.

  Senora Perez : Uh, I see. This will be enough for the rent. And this the - the water. And this...

  Senora Perez : The baker.

  Senora Perez : The baker, and the, uh - the doctor. But I'm afraid there'll hardly be enough to keep Concha out of the factory.

  Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar : I understand.

  [He withdraws a billfold, pulls out currency, considers, and hands over the larger portion] 

  Senora Perez : Here, here, here! And the landlord thought that he was going to throw us out!

• Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar : It's easy to see who runs this shop. When the time comes for a sweetheart to offer himself, he'll have to talk to you and not to your mother.

  Concha Perez : You don't happen to know of anyone?

  Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar : Let me see now. No, I don't think so.

  Concha Perez : Oh, you think too much.

  [She sits on his lap] 

  Concha Perez : You know of nobody at all? Tsk, tsk, tsk.

  [She kisses him passionately, then pulls away] 

  Concha Perez : Let me go! Don't you touch me or I'll call for help!

  Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar : Are you mad, Concha? I came here as a friend. Suddenly you throw yourself into my arms, and now you accuse me.

  Concha Perez : I kissed you because I love you... for a minute. But I won't let you kiss me without loving me.

  Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar : So you don't think I love you, my child?

  Concha Perez : No. I please you. I amuse you. But I am not the only one, am I?

  [She stamps her foot] 

  Concha Perez : Answer me, Pasqualito!

  Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar : Well...

  Concha Perez : I want to know. Am I or am I not?

  Senora Perez : What happened, my child?

  Concha Perez : Give a man a finger and he bites off the whole hand!

  Senora Perez : Well, I'll go and get dinner ready.