Please Believe Me (1950)

Deborah Kerr: Alison Kirbe

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Quotes 

• Sylvia Rumley : Cowboys.

  Alison Kirbe : Yes. Can't you just see them? Strumming their banjos as they set off about their day's work. They ride out from the ranch house - tall in the saddle. Their eyes narrowed to slits as they pass the ornery cattle rustler without even speaking to him.

  Sylvia Rumley : Oh, it all sounds simply wonderful.

• Mrs. Milwright : Embarkation is always tiresome though. All these people going abroad for the first time. That's curious whipping up of an excitement that vulgar shouting goodbyes and crying. It's really a bore, don't you think?

  Alison Kirbe : I didn't notice, I was too busy shouting and crying.

• Beryl Robinson : Alison, how do you really feel?

  Alison Kirbe : Frankly?

  Beryl Robinson : Frankly.

  Alison Kirbe : Revoltingly happy!

• Alison Kirbe : Listen to this.

  [reads from a letter] 

  Alison Kirbe : "Dear little girl, I was thinkin' of you this morning, little part."

  Sylvia Rumley : Part?

  Alison Kirbe : It means partner.

  Sylvia Rumley : Partner?

  Alison Kirbe : It means part-ner.

  Sylvia Rumley : But you're not his partner.

  Alison Kirbe : No, no, no, they don't mean partner the way *we* mean partner. They mean buddy.

  Sylvia Rumley : Buddy?

  Alison Kirbe : You know, friend, pal, chum.

  Sylvia Rumley : Oh, why doesn't he say chum?

  Alison Kirbe : Because he says part.

• Alison Kirbe : You obviously brought me here with the intention of making love to me. So, I suppose, I must just let you make love to me.

• Terence Keath : How would you like to talk about beef cattle this morning?

  Alison Kirbe : Dead or alive?

  Terence Keath : Oh, both ways.

• Matthew Kinston : I'm afraid I owe you an apology. I was rather fresh last night.

  Alison Kirbe : I do think you might have waited till we'd known each other a little longer than an hour.

  Matthew Kinston : Say, an hour and half?

  Alison Kirbe : Even two hours wouldn't be considered exactly Victorian.

• Terence Keath : Going swimming?

  Jeremy Taylor : Uh, as soon as we get our clothes off.

  Alison Kirbe : Yes, we are. Would you like to join us?

• Jeremy Taylor : You all alone?

  Alison Kirbe : Deserted.

  Jeremy Taylor : Well, it's those legal fellows for you. Business, business, business.

• Alison Kirbe : I want to have a long talk with you.

  Jeremy Taylor : Oh, about what?

  Alison Kirbe : You.

  Jeremy Taylor : Oh, my favorite subject.

• Alison Kirbe : Come along, Jeremy.

  Jeremy Taylor : I'm living the life of a caboose.

• Alison Kirbe : Why should I worry about *your* money? I have plenty of money of my own. I've got so much money, I'm, I'm not quite used to it. I've got so much, I'm vulgar about it. I'm, I'm, nouveau riche!

• Matthew Kinston : You wouldn't want to injure her neck muscles, would you?

  Terence Keath : No.

  Alison Kirbe : I knew you'd understand.

• Matthew Kinston : [kiss]  You're such an awful girl.

  Alison Kirbe : And you're such a dreadful fellow.

  Matthew Kinston : You're a captivating, entrancing, heavenly little grifter.

  Alison Kirbe : Darling.

  [kiss] 

• Alison Kirbe : [repeated line - said reluctantly]  I don't *really* need a fur coat.

• Alison Kirbe : Must be somewhere we can make some money quickly.

  Vincent Maran : You might as well save yourself some time. We gotta make a pile of dough in a hurry. And there's no honest way of doin' that.

• Alison Kirbe : Are you afraid, I might have plans against your pet client, Jeremy?

  Matthew Kinston : No.

  Alison Kirbe : Well, I do.

• Vincent Maran : Any child could tell you. A con game is like a dipsy-do. And now you see it, now you don't. When you're workin' a con, you get people thinkin' of one thing, then you do another.

  Alison Kirbe : You do?

  Vincent Maran : I don't. I'm not pretty enough. You do!

  Alison Kirbe : I do what?

  Vincent Maran : And now you see it, now you don't.

• Alison Kirbe : There's no need for us to break off socially just because you found out I'm dishonest.

• Matthew Kinston : Look, I may sound like a sap saying this but even at the risk of being trite, why don't you give up this life?

  Alison Kirbe : You mean go straight?

  Matthew Kinston : That's exactly what I mean.

  Alison Kirbe : Well, haven't you forgotten something?

  Matthew Kinston : What?

  Alison Kirbe : Shouldn't you offer me the love of a pure man?