He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)

Eugene Pallette: Maurice Duval

Quotes 

• Maurice Duval : Come home, Marianne. It's so empty without you.

  Marianne Duval : Empty? With 25 servants and four secretaries? Oh, really, Mauirce.

• Maurice Duval : I need you. Please come home.

  Marianne Duval : Home? One hundred and eighteen rooms. I was lonely and lost in every one of them.

• Marianna Duval : Why, Maurice, have you been biting your fingernails again?

  Maurice Duval : Oh, Marianne, haven't you a heart? Don't you realize that three hours ago I was practically assassinated?

• Doreta : [Answering the door]  So it's you.

  Maurice Duval : No. I'm at my bank. If you hurry you may catch me there.

• Marianne Duval : Oh, I haven't seen this afternoons paper. Why didn't you tell me about it, André?

  Andre Dorlay : I didn't want to bore you. Assassination! A bullet fired by a crazy waiter who escaped hit his coffee cup and a little sliver of carbon hit his finger. Why, it's a mere scratch.

  Maurice Duval : See, he's just worried because I wasn't killed.

• Maurice Duval : I won't be insulted in my own apartment.

  Andre Dorlay : Your wife's apartment.

  Maurice Duval : All right, I won't be insulted in my wife's apartment.

• Marianne Duval : André is only an old and trusted friend.

  Maurice Duval : Yes, the kind of a trusted friend a husband usually shoots.

• Maurice Duval : You're giving a murderer a chance?

  Paul Boliet : [Dressed in a policeman's uniform]  Murderer? He's no murderer. All he did was to scratch the finger of an over-stuffed sausage. But unfortunately, a politically important over-stuffed sausage.

  Marianne Duval : [Pointing to Maurice]  Officer, he's the man you've just called an over-stuffed sausage.

  Paul Boliet : [Looking over Maurice]  Incredible?

  Maurice Duval : What's incredible?

  Paul Boliet : That even a bad marksman could miss - there's so much of you.

• Andre Dorlay : Duval, I'm afraid from a duet we've become a trio.

  Maurice Duval : Why, it's getting so a husband doesn't know who to shoot anymore.

  Andre Dorlay : May I offer you a brandy?

  Maurice Duval : A brandy? Yes. By all means.

  Andre Dorlay : We've been betrayed by a size 42.

• Maurice Duval : Give me that gun.

  Andre Dorlay : [Watching Paul and Marianne kiss]  Shhh! It's beautiful.

  Maurice Duval : It's bigamy.