Children of Paradise (1945)

Pierre Renoir: Jéricho

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Quotes 

• Jéricho : I may be drunk, but I've still got principles.

• Jéricho : Remember, they call me the Tightwad, the Niggard, the Rat, 'cause I scavenge like a rat.

• Jéricho : They also call me The Spark, The Stoker, The Dove-keeper, because I like to keep turtledoves together.

• Jéricho : What's Baptiste got against me?

  Nathalie : Nothing. Only that you don't mind your own business.

  Jéricho : Is it his business what is or isn't mine? I've always lived all alone. So I take an interest in others. Always alone. That's not living. No one to love me. Nothing, zero, naught. If I were a widower, at least I'd have memories. But no woman would have me. They preferred petty fly-by-nights and libertines.

• Jéricho : It's Jupiter. Alias Jericho, because of my horn. Alias Medusa, because of my gaze. Greetings, Lacenaire. My respects to Beauty.

• Jéricho : Here's Jericho, alias the Trumpet, alias the Flask, for my drinking, alias Woe-Is-Me, for my hard lot. Greetings, stage manager.

• Jéricho : Do you dream about cats? Do you dream about dogs? Have you seen troubled waters? Here's the key to your dreams, bound and illustrated.

  [Holds up a set of books] 

  Jéricho : Greetings, boss.

• Jéricho : Greetings, all! This is Jericho, alias Wild Boar, Lone Sleeper.

• Jéricho : Here you are, bandit, body snatcher!

  Anselme Debureau : Don't start!

  Jéricho : Shame on you! You stole my looks, my identity!

  Anselme Debureau : You're not the only ragman in Paris.

• Jéricho : The game's up! Time to go home.

  Baptiste : Let me go!

  Jéricho : For shame! As sure as I'm called Old Maid, Wise Counsel, Prim and Proper, for my sense of morality.