Loving Couples (1964)

Gunnar Björnstrand: Dr. Jacob Lewin

Quotes 

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : I can't do much unless you take your pants off and lie down.

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : Don't look so tragic, Petra. You're not the father!

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : These corridors are like prison. The women are let out, but for us it's a life sentence.

• Sam, doctor : Fresh air. Freedom! We're tied to them with a umbilical cord.

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : It's not easy to cut it.

  Sam, doctor : You're dependent on women?

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : Good Lord, no! But the cord can be used to feed our vanity and strangle our independence.

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : Beware of women, Sam.

  Sam, doctor : They serve one purpose anyway.

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : 30 seconds of heaven, 30 years of hell.

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : Like a lot of broody hens - and you must be everything to them. Even friend, though that's asking a bit much.

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : I'd spank you if it'd do you any good or give me any pleasure.

  Agda Frideborg : Be kind to me.

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : I shall march you straight off to bed where you belong.

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : Women! They're not only fat-bellied, they're fat-headed as well.

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : Yes, they even want us to act God the Father.

  Sam, doctor : And don't we?

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : We're a wise family, vicar. We don't hold with feelings, they're too vulgar.

• The fat man : Here's to our common interest.

  Olaf Landborg : With war threatening, the market is good.

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : In my line there's never a slump - a popular investment.

  The fat man : It's no joking matter.

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : If you can't joke about sex you're in danger of taking women seriously.

  Olaf Landborg : Never do that. Has everyone got champagne?

• Lt. Bernhard Landborg : Enforced intimacy doesn't improve people.

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : Do you know anything that does?

• Petra von Pahlen : How are you, Jacob? You never say unless I ask.

  Dr. Jacob Lewin : Macson ignores my friendship with his wife and borrows money from me. Very civilized. I'm a seducer and he's an upper class pimp.

• Dr. Jacob Lewin : Yes, I look forward to death. It will make me change my opinion of life.