Madam Satan (1930)

Reginald Denny: Bob Brooks

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• Romeo : I never repented a sin.

  Jimmy Wade : I never repeated one.

  Bob Brooks : Well, I've never been able to believe that anything I did - was a sin.

• Bob Brooks : Don't you understand? Love can't be kept in cold storage. Its a battery that has to be recharged every day.

• Bob Brooks : Her husband must be a sap!

• Bob Brooks : Jimmy, do you know the devil?

  Jimmy Wade : No, but I'm going to!

• Angela Brooks : [in disguise as Madam Satan]  The road to my hometown is paved with kisses.

  Bob Brooks : Splendid! Let's break the speed limit.

• Angela Brooks : Did you enjoy yourself last night?

  Bob Brooks : No. No, darling. No. As a matter of fact, I had a terrible time with some out of town businessmen.

  Angela Brooks : Business?

  Bob Brooks : Oh, yes. You know me, darling. I eat business and I sleep business...

  Jimmy Wade : And drink business!

• Bob Brooks : Don't blame me! Blame my wife. She's so darn suspicious.

  Jimmy Wade : She has a right to be. I don't see how you can run around with a Jane like Trixie when you've got a wife like that!

  Bob Brooks : Trixie is not a Jane. She's a - counter-irritant.

• Bob Brooks : You don't understand! I'm a romantic guy. I crave warm affection and all I get is frozen justice.

• Bob Brooks : That's you all over: cold logic.

  Angela Brooks : You hate me, don't you?

  Bob Brooks : Oh, of course I don't hate you, darling. As a matter of fact, I think you're above all other women. But, below zero.

• Angela Brooks : Oh, Bob, what a child you are!

  Bob Brooks : Of course, I am. All men are children. They like to play and chase toy balloons.

• Bob Brooks : I've tried to be your lover, as well as, your husband. Yes, but you don't know what love means.

  Angela Brooks : You don't know what marriage means.

  Bob Brooks : Oh, yes I do! It's a schoolroom and you're the teacher. Well, I've graduated!

• Bob Brooks : Go ahead, explain. What are you doing here?

  Jimmy Wade : Believe it or not, I...

  Bob Brooks : You tell me you're waiting for a streetcar and I'll brain you!

• Bob Brooks : If it isn't Trixie, why can't I see her?

  Jimmy Wade : Because, I'm - protecting her reputation.

• Jimmy Wade : The truth is, the lady's married.

  Bob Brooks : No?

  Jimmy Wade : Oh, yes.

  Bob Brooks : You snake in the grass.

  [tries to reveal who Jimmy is hiding under a blanket - but Jimmy stops him] 

  Jimmy Wade : Keep off the grass!

• Jimmy Wade : Come on, old man, please, let's go. Will you?

  Bob Brooks : Oh, all right. But, I don't know where I'm going. I'm as free as the air! I've left home.

  Trixie : For me?

  Jimmy Wade : For good?

  Bob Brooks : For the good of all women!

• Angela Brooks : [in disguise as Madam Satan]  You may get burned.

  Bob Brooks : My heart is made of asbestos!

• Bob Brooks : Who are you?

  Angela Brooks : [in disguise]  Madam Satan. Address: headed on deceit. Telephone: Brimstone 1 - O - O - O.

• Angela Brooks : [in disguise as Madam Satan]  Let us drink to this delightful torment they call - life.

  Bob Brooks : Why, life is love. Drink!

• Bob Brooks : Tell me, what part of Hell will you take me first?

  Angela Brooks : [in disguise as Madam Satan]  First of all, oh, first of all, I will take you where the naughty husbands are.

  Bob Brooks : Naughty husbands? How about the cold wives?

  Angela Brooks : Oh, there are no wives in Hell. They get their punishment on this earth.

• Angela Brooks : [in disguise as Madam Satan]  Tell me, what is your name?

  Bob Brooks : Bob.

  Angela Brooks : Nice, Boob.

• Angela Brooks : [in disguise as Madam Satan]  You do not love your wife, No?

  Bob Brooks : I respect her.

  Angela Brooks : Oh, poor woman!

• Bob Brooks : I must hand it to you. You have genius for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  Jimmy Wade : Well, you have an even greater genius for being with the wrong woman at the wrong time.

• Angela Brooks : [in disguise as Madam Satan]  The devil cannot be idle. She must go. A bientot, Jimmy. Au Revoir, nice Boob.

  [departs] 

  Bob Brooks : Boob, is right.

  Jimmy Wade : Oh, now, Bob, you're taking this thing too seriously.

• Bob Brooks : [final lines]  I've been an awful fool. To wander so far from my own fireside, in search of...

  Angela Brooks : Fire.

  [lights Bob's cigarette] 

  Jimmy Wade : [singing]  Take your hat and stick and leave while you may.