King of Hearts (1966)

Micheline Presle: Madame Eglantine

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Quotes 

• Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : I'll tell you my secret. I live for the moment. That's what counts.

• Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : Shall I dress as a housewife, a mummy or nun?

  Le soldat Charles Plumpick alias le roi de coeur : Okay this way. Listen, sit down and don't move. Are you a whore?

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : Yes!

  Le soldat Charles Plumpick alias le roi de coeur : And I'm a customer?

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : Yes.

  Le soldat Charles Plumpick alias le roi de coeur : Good. We understand each other.

• Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : I'm not the girl for you. I'll get you one. Marble Pussy or Rosie, Groping Gerty or Coquelicot. The choice is yours.

• Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : Blush! Men go for that.

  Coquelicot : Do I frighten him?

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : Sure. Men seem tough, but they're soft as asparagus. Teeny babies at heart.

• Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : Charles, enter.

  Le soldat Charles Plumpick alias le roi de coeur : Staying with us?

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : To take the chill off, tell you of birds and bees.

  Coquelicot : You don't know how? Neither do I.

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : This is the bedroom. The bed. The lamp. The switch. I suggest a quiet moment. Then turn the light on. Examine the object of your desire carefully. Turn the light off again. Love is played like chess, black and white.

  Coquelicot : Will he get naked?

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : Yes. Don't be lewd. There's booze. I'll draw the curtains.

• Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : [kisses the sleeping King of Hearts]  He tastes of raspberries.

  La Duchesse : [kisses the King]  Ripe raspberries. The way I like them.

  Le Général Géranium : I wouldn't mind seeing the Duke cuckolded.

  Le Duc de Trèfle : Cuckolded? Who?

  La Duchesse : Nobody dear.

  Le Duc de Trèfle : We need a cuckold for the sake of the town's equilibrium.

• Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : What curls!

  La Duchesse : She'll have to stick out her chest more. Head still. Only the legs move.

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : Some blue on the eyelids. An orange blossom in her bosom.

  Coquelicot : Can't I go as I am?

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine , La Duchesse : What a good idea!

• Coquelicot : What's under their kilts?

  Monseigneur Marguerite : Nothing!

  Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine : You mean everything!