Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Adrianne Allen: Claire Hempstead
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Quotes
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Claire Hempstead : Dear, why are you treating me with this devotion?
Jerry Corbett : Devotion?
Claire Hempstead : Well, about as much devotion as I'd show to a boa constrictor. Is it because I treated you badly once?
Jerry Corbett : I didn't think you knew that you had.
Claire Hempstead : I was young and egotistical, Jerry.
Jerry Corbett : Well, what are you now?
Claire Hempstead : Young and egotistical.
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Jerry Corbett : [on the phone] What would you say if I said I was coming over to see you now? Well, you might at least answer me.
Claire Hempstead : Sir, if I said yes, I should mean no, and if I said no, I should mean yes. But my silence is all true and for you.
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Claire Hempstead : The only thing worse than a drunkard is a reformed drunkard.
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Claire Hempstead : Oh, Jerry, this is your big moment.
Jerry Corbett : To Waterloo.
Claire Hempstead : To Austerlitz!
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Claire Hempstead : Well, how do you feel with the curtain going up on your first play?
Jerry Corbett : Like Napoleon before Austerlitz - or before Waterloo.
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Jerry Corbett : I'm grateful this whole thing's happened because if I had never met you again, I might have gone through life clinging to an image in my mind, a phantom that I'd been drinking to for years, when all the time I had a wonderful reality in my arms.
Claire Hempstead : You really should save those speeches for your plays.