A Scandal in Paris (1946)

George Sanders: Eugéne François Vidocq

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• Eugéne François Vidocq : Sometimes the chains of matrimony are so heavy they have to be carried by three.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : There's no fool so dangerous as a fool with brains.

  Loretta : Except a woman so foolish as to fall in love.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Only the heartless succeed in crime - as in love.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : In crime, as in love, there are only those who do, and those who don't dare.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : What is the trouble madame?

  Marquise De Pierremont : Satan is there! Satan! Between the bishops tombstone and the grave of madame...

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Oh Satan? I trust he's not after the bishop's soul.

  Marquise De Pierremont : I trust you'll catch my little imp, if your legs are as quick as your wit, monsieur!

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Madame, your lackey has legs, a gentleman can only offer his wit.

  Marquise De Pierremont : What chic! Now what a gallant charmer, my rogue of a monkey is down right mesmerized!

• Eugéne François Vidocq : It isn't a question of morals, but of manners. A man who's capable of killing with a knife is quite liable to eat with one.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Women always surprise us by doing the expected.

• Loretta : Really, I... I should call the police.

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Don't call them until I've bought you another hat.

  Loretta : Another?... another hat? Well, I admit I'm not so rich that I can afford to throw them in the gutter. Hats don't grow on trees, you know!

  Eugéne François Vidocq : I know that some of the latest fashions look as if they did.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Try to see further than the point of your knife. If I become chief of police, we'll have a chance to loot the city.

  Emile Vernet : Loot a city? What does that mean?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Conservatively... fifteen million.

  Emile Vernet : Fifteen...?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : ...million... in gold.

  Emile Vernet : Where is it?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : In the vault of the Bank of Paris.

  Emile Vernet : Bank of Paris? Hmmmnnnn... Such a job! No! Too big for the two of us!

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Yes, but we can enlist the support of your dear family.

  Emile Vernet : Yeah, family!... Yeah, but we'll have to give them a cut.

  Eugéne François Vidocq : A small percentage.

  Emile Vernet : Nah... no percentage! Just a cut!

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Like most good men, I came from a poor but honest family - a little poorer than honest. The difference accounted for my being born in prison. Whenever poor mama expected another baby and consequently needed shelter, it was her custom to steal a loaf of bread and go to prison. She had stolen eleven loaves, served eleven sentences, and had eleven children, when to her misfortunes were added a twelfth. When poor mama went to a better world, leaving me to make the best of this one, what is more natural than that I should often return to the happy scene of my earliest childhood?

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Love and crime make incompatible bedfellows. The most perfect criminal can be traced in court if he leaves his heart behind him as a clue.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Remarkable for one of her sex. I'm afraid a fourth time and I'm liable to fall in love with her.

  Emile Vernet : Fall in love - lay off. That's how they collared my cousin, Pierre... . He went dancing one night and didn't get home for fifty years.

• Marquise De Pierremont : Uh, what was I saying?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Behave, Satan.

  [Her monkey] 

  Marquise De Pierremont : Exactly.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : In crime, as in love, there are only those who do and those who don't dare.

• Mimi De Pierremont : I knew it from the beginning.

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Knew what?

  Mimi De Pierremont : That no man is a saint.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : I've had so many names, I'm afraid I don't remember the most recent one.

  Loretta : Perhaps you'll refresh your memory by consulting the visiting card in your wallet.

  Eugéne François Vidocq : My dear lady, after our visit to the hat shop, my wallet is empty.

  Loretta : Is that all we mean to each other - an empty wallet?

• Eugéne François Vidocq : My dear Emile, we always have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Love and crime make incompatible bedfellows. The most perfect criminal can be traced and caught when he leaves his heart behind him as a clue. Only the heartless succeed in crime, as in love.

• Emile Vernet : It's that girl. You think she's worth 50 million Francs?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Oh, heh, much more than that.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Uh, madame, your lacky has legs. A gentleman can only offer his wit.

  Marquise De Pierremont : What chic!

• Prefect of Police Richet : That man I've been pursuing for years - he's the real criminal. You've got to find him. I've failed, but you won't. Promise me you'll put an end to him.

  Eugéne François Vidocq : I have already put an end to him.

  Prefect of Police Richet : You have? How? You're a great detective - greater than I ever was.

• Emile Vernet : Look at that old Christmas tree parading around with diamonds big as tomb stones. If we could only get our hands on...

  Eugéne François Vidocq : It isn't done, Emile, to put such thoughts into words.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Looking back on the phantasmagoria of my life, I have often wondered what would have happened had I been on time for my appointment with the past. Of course, Richet was only a fool, but a fool is always dangerous and above all, a jealous fool who had set his cat to catch a shadow.

• Eugéne François Vidocq : You're very lovely, Therese.

  Therese De Pierremont : Am I as lovely as the other lady?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : In her eyes I see myself as I am. But in yours, I see myself as I should be. As I hope to be.

• Therese De Pierremont : I stole them for you.

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Thank you, but you don't expect me to marry a thief.

  Therese De Pierremont : What can I do? If you won't come over to my side, I'll have to go over to yours.

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Darling, I promise you whichever side you're on, we'll be there together.