Quotes
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Yvette Devereaux : Jody is an entertainer, Papa. It is permissible to look at him.
Henri Devereaux : Only if you have an extraordinary bad taste.
Yvette Devereaux : Because he cannot afford to wear a ruffled shirt? Because he has the grace of a man instead of a dancing master...?
Henri Devereaux : Yvette.
Yvette Devereaux : ...Or merely because he is an American?
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Henri Devereaux : By the way, Yvette just told me something very shocking. You didn't tell me that she had agreed to be kidnapped.
Bart Maverick : Oh, well, I thought I'd let her tell you, sir. That is, if she wanted to.
Henri Devereaux : I've always considered Americans to be devoid of the qualities we Creoles value. You and your brother have shown me... how very wrong I was. You also taught me that I can be proud of being an American.