The Man with a Cloak (1951)
Joseph Cotten: Dupin
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Quotes
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Charles Theverner : She's after my money. Everybody is after my money.
Dupin : You must've been after it yourself to have acquired so much.
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Dupin : It says in Timothy, that the love of money is the root of all evil.
Flaherty : It's not that I love it, sir, it's just that it's a necessary evil. And to show you I have indeed read the book, it says in Ecclesiastes "Money answereth all things".
Dupin : In bitterness, Flaherty, it was said in bitterness.
Flaherty : That's the way I was asking for it.
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Mrs. Flynn, the housekeeper : You read like an actor... and you drink like one. Would you take advice from the likes of me?
Dupin : Ma'am, I take advice as easily as I take a drink. The only trouble with me is I've never been able to make good use of either.
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Dupin : Try to get the murder out of your face.
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Mrs. Inness, landlady : It's the first of the month, you know.
Dupin : I can understand your excitement, it happens only once every thirty days.
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Dupin : The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
The Pharmacist : I'm not a fox.
Dupin : ...now you're no longer sleeping. Open up! This is vital, a matter of life and death.
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Dupin : A lovely girl is an uncommon sight in a place like this. In the face of loveliness, *all* men feel a little foolish.
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Madeline Minot : They say he is very rich.
Dupin : They say worst than that. They he's a facsimile of the devil.
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Dupin : A connaisseur of wine, women, and wit. Now he's an ancient ruin with one arm paralyzed and one foot in the grave.
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Dupin : Could I serve you some tea?
Lorna Bounty : Tea?
Lorna Bounty : Well, some wine, perhaps?
Dupin : You would be preserving my life.
Lorna Bounty : A sufficient reason.
Dupin : There are also sufficient reasons not to preserve it. But, I am not the man to disclose them.
Lorna Bounty : That's understandable.
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Dupin : I've always found it wiser not to question the cause of anyone's bad temper.
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Dupin : Eavesdropping is one of the few unpunishable pleasures in life.
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Lorna Bounty : He is very old and very ill and last night he drank more wine than is good for him.
Dupin : You can't imagine how impossible that sounds to me.
Lorna Bounty : I don't have to imagine it. I can see it.
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Lorna Bounty : If I told you something flattering, would you believe it?
Dupin : Only if it were flattering.
Lorna Bounty : Then I'll be frank about it. I can't remember when I've met a man who intrigues me as much as you do.
Dupin : Do you forget easily?
Lorna Bounty : No, I don't.
Dupin : Then I'll be equally frank and tell you that I - find you equally intriguing.
Lorna Bounty : Well, at least we've broken the ice.
Dupin : Now we can drowned together.
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Lorna Bounty : A man has a right to live as he pleases.
Dupin : And die as he pleases.
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Charles Theverner : Who are you?
Dupin : A man with an empty glass.
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Dupin : She's as courageous as she is foolish. This comes from a faith in life, Theverner. Something you and I both lacks. A dream that is not for sale - and never can be laughed away.
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Lorna Bounty : If I were your friend, I would help you. You owe money at the Tavern. You can't pay your rent.
Dupin : A bribe?
Lorna Bounty : That's not a very *friendly* thing to say.
Dupin : A gift then.
Lorna Bounty : Couldn't we call it a loan?
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Dupin : You've discovered both my weaknesses.
Lorna Bounty : To understand another's weaknesses, is the first rule of friendship.
Dupin : The second?
[moves Lorna in close]
Lorna Bounty : To understand another's strengh.
[Dupin kisses Lorna]
Lorna Bounty : That was very impulsive.
Dupin : Under the circumstances, it was inevitable. I think I'd better say good night.
Lorna Bounty : I suppose that was inevitable too.
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Dupin : How much more habitable the world becomes, just by dancing with you.
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Dupin : Do you know what you're doing?
Madeline Minot : What am I doing?
Dupin : You're dancing in a public place. You're no longer respectable.
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Lorna Bounty : Theverner made me feel I could be a great actress. In time, I would be Ophelia and Juliet.
Dupin : And Lady MacBeth?
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Lorna Bounty : Preserving your life may become a little monotonous.
Dupin : Not to me.
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Dupin : It's difficult to be the toast of an era and not be burned by it.
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Dupin : Someday I'll be a man not to hard to find. If anyone bothers to look.
Lorna Bounty : Someone will.
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Dupin : Money - the corrupter of conscience and honor. It makes fire in men's minds. It makes friends - foes. And enemies - friends. But, having little, I'm not one to talk much about it.
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Dupin : Always remember that either in heaven or hell, someone thinks kindly of you.