Separate Tables (1958)

Rita Hayworth: Ann Shankland

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• Ann Shankland : I didn't mean any harm.

  John Malcolm : That's when you do the most damage.

  Ann Shankland : We all make mistakes.

  John Malcolm : You specialize in them.

• Ann Shankland : You're making it a bit too obvious, you know, that you hate the very sight of me.

  John Malcolm : The very sight of you is perhaps the one thing about you I don't hate.

• John Malcolm : Is this your year for looking up old husbands?

  Ann Shankland : Only the special ones.

• Sibyl Railton-Bell : He says we're alike, he and I.

  Ann Shankland : Did he?

  Sibyl Railton-Bell : He said we're both afraid of life and people and sex. There! I've said it. I've said the word! He said I hate saying it even and I do. He's right! He's right! I do! I do.

• Ann Shankland : It's hard to believe, but, you can be more alone in New York than this hotel. Even though there's separate tables, they can talk back and forth.

• John Malcolm : My ideas of a wife were influenced by watching my mother ruin her health to bring up eight kids. Not that my demands on you would have been as high as that. But, they would have included the proper running of a home and the bearing of children.

  Ann Shankland : About children, I did make it perfectly clear...

  John Malcolm : I know, I know. The beautiful fashion model. That little hobby of yours. Your figure was too important to risk for posterity.

• Ann Shankland : The same old John. Wearing out the same old cascade of truths, half-truths and distortions. Well, human nature isn't as simple as you make it, John. You left out the most important fact of all. You see, you're the only person in the world that I've ever really been fond of. Notice how tactfully I leave out the word love. Give me a cigarette.

• Ann Shankland : Why would I have married you if I didn't love you? After all, there were others - more important men.

  John Malcolm : They couldn't pay you the full price.

  Ann Shankland : What price?

  John Malcolm : Enslavement!

• Ann Shankland : If all I wanted to do was make my husband a slave, why would I have chosen you and not the others?

  John Malcolm : Cause where would the fun have been? Where would the fun have been enslaving men like that? A tame millionaire? A mincing baronet? To well brought you to say anything when you denied them their conjugal rights! Too well mannered not to take you headaches at bedtime as *just* headaches at bedtime. Where would the fun have been turning your weapons on men like that?

• Ann Shankland : Being alone in a crowd is worse. It's more painful. More frightening. So frightening. So frightening.

• John Malcolm : We don't have very much hope together.

  Ann Shankland : Have we all that much apart?

• Ann Shankland : We could make-believe couldn't we? We could wipe out everything that's happened to us. The waves rolling in all night long. Remember?