The Man with a Cloak (1951)

Barbara Stanwyck: Lorna Bounty

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Quotes 

• Lorna Bounty : It is difficult for anyone to speak when you listen only to yourself.

• Dr. Roland : I can keep him alive only so long as he wishes to exist.

  Lorna Bounty : You flatter yourself.

• Dr. Roland : Miss Bounty, I told him one glass of sherry. Just one glass. He's consuming the entire decanter. It's suicide. Pure suicide.

  Lorna Bounty : In that case, he has been committing suicide, as you put it, for 40 years.

• Lorna Bounty : Lingerie from Paris. One can always tell.

• Joseph Martin : How do you look to yourself?

  Lorna Bounty : A man's eyes are a better test than any mirror. How do I look to you? Go ahead, tell me. I want to know.

• Dupin : Could I serve you some tea?

  Lorna Bounty : Tea?

  Lorna Bounty : Well, some wine, perhaps?

  Dupin : You would be preserving my life.

  Lorna Bounty : A sufficient reason.

  Dupin : There are also sufficient reasons not to preserve it. But, I am not the man to disclose them.

  Lorna Bounty : That's understandable.

• Lorna Bounty : Have you known her long?

  Dupin : That depends on how you look at time.

  Lorna Bounty : I don't look at it with much favor - being a woman.

  Dupin : A very beautiful one.

• Lorna Bounty : He is very old and very ill and last night he drank more wine than is good for him.

  Dupin : You can't imagine how impossible that sounds to me.

  Lorna Bounty : I don't have to imagine it. I can see it.

• Joseph Martin : You act as if you've seen him before.

  Lorna Bounty : No. But I think I'll see him again.

• Lorna Bounty : He wants me to sing for him. But I'm going to sing for you.

• Lorna Bounty : If I told you something flattering, would you believe it?

  Dupin : Only if it were flattering.

  Lorna Bounty : Then I'll be frank about it. I can't remember when I've met a man who intrigues me as much as you do.

  Dupin : Do you forget easily?

  Lorna Bounty : No, I don't.

  Dupin : Then I'll be equally frank and tell you that I - find you equally intriguing.

  Lorna Bounty : Well, at least we've broken the ice.

  Dupin : Now we can drowned together.

• Lorna Bounty : A man has a right to live as he pleases.

  Dupin : And die as he pleases.

• Lorna Bounty : If I were your friend, I would help you. You owe money at the Tavern. You can't pay your rent.

  Dupin : A bribe?

  Lorna Bounty : That's not a very *friendly* thing to say.

  Dupin : A gift then.

  Lorna Bounty : Couldn't we call it a loan?

• Dupin : You've discovered both my weaknesses.

  Lorna Bounty : To understand another's weaknesses, is the first rule of friendship.

  Dupin : The second?

  [moves Lorna in close] 

  Lorna Bounty : To understand another's strengh.

  [Dupin kisses Lorna] 

  Lorna Bounty : That was very impulsive.

  Dupin : Under the circumstances, it was inevitable. I think I'd better say good night.

  Lorna Bounty : I suppose that was inevitable too.

• Lorna Bounty : You're obviously a man of honor. Otherwise, you would not be saying good night.

• Lorna Bounty : Theverner made me feel I could be a great actress. In time, I would be Ophelia and Juliet.

  Dupin : And Lady MacBeth?

• Lorna Bounty : Preserving your life may become a little monotonous.

  Dupin : Not to me.

• Lorna Bounty : Ten years is a long time to care for a mountain of selfishness.

• Dupin : Someday I'll be a man not to hard to find. If anyone bothers to look.

  Lorna Bounty : Someone will.