- Philippe Clarence: I won't believe in this marriage till I see your fiancée. Her name is?
- Daniel Rousseau: Lafaurie. Micheline Lafaurie. Micheline Lafaurie, 19, orphan. She is in Reims. She'll arrive soon.
- Philippe Clarence: It's so far.
- Daniel Rousseau: It's not the Far West.
- Daniel Rousseau: Will you be my witness?
- Philippe Clarence: What?
- Daniel Rousseau: Will you be my witness?
- Philippe Clarence: For a duel?
- Daniel Rousseau: For a wedding.
- Philippe Clarence: What do you think?
- Solange: Yes, it's interesting.
- Philippe Clarence: "Interesting"? Nice compliment. So very encouraging. How about it's "sensational" or "wonderful"?
- Solange: We'll see, but drawings aren't dresses.
- Anne-Marie: Should I tell the lady downstairs to leave?
- Philippe Clarence: Is she pretty or ugly?
- Anne-Marie: Ugly.
- Philippe Clarence: Send her up, then. No, no, I'm kidding. Tell her I'm busy.
- [Anne-Marie leaves, to Solange]
- Philippe Clarence: She must be beautiful. Anne-Marie screens them, they're always stunning.
- Solange: She still loves you.
- Philippe Clarence: It bothers me. It's over, she should leave. I can't fire her.
- Solange: Me neither.
- Philippe Clarence: You're already cheating on Daniel.
- Micheline Lafaurie: He would've allowed me to come out.
- Micheline Lafaurie: [seated at busy restaurant] So many people.
- Philippe Clarence: Just a few friends.
- Micheline Lafaurie: All of Paris.
- Philippe Clarence: The best place to be alone. We're alone, Micheline. We're on a deserted island. I'm sending signals. No one cares about us.
- Philippe Clarence: Let me show you around. This is the dining room. We'll hardly use it. I prefer eating throughout the apartment. Here's the lounge. Lounges are a silly bourgeois tradition. You never use them! Here's the living room. They're removing the partition. What a strange idea. Expanding the lounge, yet another tradition. It's a lovely apartment. There are six rooms with a view of the garden. Bedroom, where you can sleep - or not. The maids won't know where to look for us. Breakfast would be a wild goose chase.
- Micheline Lafaurie: Life is stupid sometimes.
- Philippe Clarence: Life is fine, Micheline. People are stupid. They swim upstream instead of going with the flow.
- Micheline Lafaurie: Perhaps, but unfortunately we have to know where we're heading.
- Philippe Clarence: What was I talking about?
- Micheline Lafaurie: Your profession. "The soul of a dress is a woman's body." You lost me.
- Philippe Clarence: It's simple. A dress with no soul is a dress that wasn't created for a woman. Thanks to the woman...
- Micheline Lafaurie: Yes.
- Philippe Clarence: You don't know what it is to create.
- Micheline Lafaurie: Nuns say it's creating something with nothing.
- Philippe Clarence: That's what they say?
- Micheline Lafaurie: About God. He created Heaven and Earth.
- Philippe Clarence: Exactly.
- Philippe Clarence: You look ravishing, besides this stitch.
- [adjusting the fabric on Micheline's feathered outfit]
- Philippe Clarence: This is original.
- Micheline Lafaurie: I should've thanked you.
- Philippe Clarence: It's my pleasure, we did it on a whim. You look like a nice rooster.
- Micheline Lafaurie: I feel like a chicken, I didn't want to leave my room.
- Philippe Clarence: You look charming.
- Philippe Clarence: Stop playing.
- Micheline Lafaurie: I'm not like you. I don't play games. This is who I am. You wouldn't understand. A man like you.
- Philippe Clarence: A man like me?
- Micheline Lafaurie: You don't believe in anything.
- Philippe Clarence: I believe in what I see.
- Micheline Lafaurie: It's sad, but true. I'm marrying Daniel on Saturday.
- Philippe Clarence: You don't even love him.
- Micheline Lafaurie: I'll learn to.
- Philippe Clarence: Micheline.
- Micheline Lafaurie: I learned to detest you.
- Philippe Clarence: Are you sure?
- Suzie Lambert: Is my dress ready?
- Anne-Marie: I think so.
- [to an assistant]
- Anne-Marie: Tell the shop Miss Lambert is here.
- Suzie Lambert: I can't sing naked tonight.
- Anne-Marie: Of course not.
- Philippe Clarence: This girl has no breasts! A waist, but no breasts.
- Modèle de robe: Can't have everything.
- Philippe Clarence: It's not your concern. Who asked you?
- Le cousin de Micheline: [Dixieland jazz on the gramophone] Your records are old.
- Micheline Lafaurie: I like them. If you don't, don't listen