Madame Bovary (1949)

Jennifer Jones: Emma Bovary

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Quotes 

• Emma Bovary : Do you know, Charles, why that clock strikes? To announce the death of another hour.

• Emma Bovary : Is it a crime to want things to be beautiful?

• Rodolphe Boulanger : I'm a fairly courageous man, Emma, but I was afraid of you.

  Emma Bovary : No! Oh... oh, I ask for too much, I know it. I expected too much of you.

  Rodolphe Boulanger : You asked for something that consumes while it burns - that destroys everything it touches. I didn't want to be destroyed.

• Emma Bovary : You scoundrel!

  Lheureux : I beg your pardon?

  Emma Bovary : You monster!

  Lheureux : It's hardly becoming, Madame Bovary, for a woman of your character to start calling names. I've tolerated your conduct for too long. The things I've witnessed! The cheating, the lying, the insatiable greed! What ininquities! What sordid passions! Your child and husband deceived! All morals abandoned! Every loyalty forsworn while you indulged yourself with any man that came your way!

  Emma Bovary : Oh, don't! Please!

  Lheureux : And now you call me names. I am in the business of making money, Madame Bovary, a recognized, honorable profession, a profession which I am confident bears public comparison with yours.