The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Eula Morgan: Madame Nicolau

Quotes 

• Louise Soubirous : [obviously initially very concerned after having just heard that Bernadette was suddenly taken ill]  Bernadette! Are you alright?

  Bernadette : [calmly, due to thankfully being ok]  Yes mama. There's nothing to worry about.

  Louise Soubirous : Nothing to worry about?...

  [starts to cry] 

  Louise Soubirous : ... Scare me half to death and you say 'there's nothing to worry about.' I left your father's dinner to burn; I ran through the streets like a mad woman, what do I find? You, sitting there like... like a princess on a throne. You good for!...

  Madame Nicolau : [quickly intervening]  Don't strike the child! She's an angel of God.

  Louise Soubirous : [dismissively and sarcastically]  Angel... she's the laughing stock of Lourdes.

• Antoine Nicolau : [upon Bernadette having just left with her mother Louise and sister Marie]  What do you think of it old maman?

  Madame Nicolau : Things like that bode no good.

  Antoine Nicolau : Maman, as long as I live I'll never see anything more beautiful than the face of that girl as she lay there at Massabielle.

  [pauses a moment] 

  Antoine Nicolau : One ought not even touch a being like that.