The Happy Thieves (1961)

Rex Harrison: Jimmy Bourne

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• Jimmy Bourne : [as Eve grabs a drink from a tray and tosses it back]  But Eve, that's a *martini*.

  Eve Lewis : It *was* a martini.

• Jimmy Bourne : A man is nothing without his profession.

• Jimmy Bourne : A fine time you've picked to celebrate. It took a year planning this thing and you hand it over to a two-drink drunk!

• Eve Lewis : When did you become dishonest?

  Jimmy Bourne : What do you mean? When? I've always been dishonest. The main thing is to admit it to oneself and work at it openly everyday.

• Eve Lewis : You mean you don't mind being called a thief?

  Jimmy Bourne : Mind? Why should I mind? Doctors, lawyers, insurance brokers, we're all the same.

• Jimmy Bourne : There's a touch of larceny in all successful men.

• Jimmy Bourne : Why, darling, we're all thieves in our particular way.

• Jimmy Bourne : The only thing I'm interested in is to see you well again. Get plenty of rest and try to get these nudes out of your mind.

  Señor Elek - Hotel Bourne Desk Clerk : There is a client that...

  Jimmy Bourne : Talk to your doctor, Elek. Sex is a terrible thing when it gets ahold like this.

• Jimmy Bourne : I have a feeling we may be engaging in something bigger, much bigger.

  Eve Lewis : Darling.

  [turns out the light] 

• Jimmy Bourne : She's all woman, when she's a woman, like no other woman - if it wasn't for that malicious streak of femininity.

• Jimmy Bourne : I could have forgiven her for that. I could have even forgiven her for being so feminine. But, I can't forgive her for walking out on me. Not me! A husband, perhaps, but not a man who loves her.

• Jimmy Bourne : Women have been known to change their minds if someone points the way.

• Eve Lewis : Do you think they'll believe that creep?

  Jimmy Bourne : Absolutely. Dr. Muñoz is a highly respected man.

• Jimmy Bourne : We'll go to Majorca one day and have the child.

  Eve Lewis : What child?

  Jimmy Bourne : Well, the child you're going to have one day.

  Eve Lewis : When? When I'm 90? Won't that baffle medical science? Never! There'll be no child.

• Jimmy Bourne : What are you trying to say?

  Eve Lewis : You're the clever one, you figure it out.