Sabrina (1954)

William Holden: David Larrabee

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Quotes 

• David Larrabee : What's so constructive about marrying Elizabeth Tyson?

  Linus Larrabee : [offering a sheet of plastic]  Taste it.

  David Larrabee : [licks it]  It's sweet.

  Linus Larrabee : That's right. It's made of sugar cane.

  David Larrabee : Sugar cane. Wait a minute. This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the Tysons own the largest holdings of sugar cane in Puerto Rico, would it?

  Linus Larrabee : Second largest. The largest have no daughter.

  David Larrabee : It's all beginning to make sense. Mr. Tyson owns the sugarcane, you own the formula for the plastics, and I'm supposed to be offered up as a human sacrifice on the altar of the industrial progress. Is that it?

  Linus Larrabee : You make it sound so vulgar, David, as if the son of the hot dog dynasty were being offered in marriage to the daughter of the mustard king. Surely... surely you don't object to Elizabeth Tyson just because her father happens to have twenty million dollars? That's very narrow-minded of you, David.

  David Larrabee : Just one thing you overlooked. I haven't proposed, and she hasn't accepted.

  Linus Larrabee : Oh, don't worry. I proposed and Mr. Tyson accepted.

  David Larrabee : Did you kiss him?

• David Larrabee : You don't live here!

  Sabrina : Yes, I do.

  David Larrabee : I live here!

  Sabrina : Hi, neighbor.

• David Larrabee : I could have sworn I knew every pretty girl on the North Shore.

  Sabrina Fairchild : I could have sworn you took in more territory than that.

• David Larrabee : I thought you two had eloped! I wouldn't mind, but not in my car.

• Linus Larrabee : A new product has been found, something of use to the world, so a new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines are brought in, a harbor is dug, and you're in business. It's purely coincidental of course that people who never saw a dime before suddenly have a dollar, and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their teeth fixed and their faces washed. What's wrong with the kind of an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and, uh, movies on a Saturday night? Miss McCardle, will you send in the secretaries?

  Miss McCardle : Yes, Mr. Larrabee.

  David Larrabee : Now you make me feel like a heel. If I don't marry Elizabeth, some kid is going to be running around Puerto Rico barefoot with cavities in his teeth.

• Oliver Larrabee : Now, I'm not saying that all Larrabees have been saints. There was a Thomas Larrabee who was hung for piracy, and there was a Benjamin Larrabee who was a slave trader, and there was my great-great uncle, Joshua Larrabee, who was shot in Indiana while attempting to rob a train, but there NEVER was a Larrabee who behaved as David Larrabee has behaved here tonight!

  David Larrabee : And exactly what have I done?

• David Larrabee : I feel so stupid I could kill myself.

  Sabrina Fairchild : You'll be all right in a minute.

• Sabrina Fairchild : Kiss me, David.

  David Larrabee : Love to, Sabrina.

  [kisses her] 

  Sabrina Fairchild : Again. That's better.

  David Larrabee : What's the matter, darling? You're not worried about us, are you? Because I'm not. So there'll be a big stink in the family. So who cares?

  Sabrina Fairchild : David... I don't think I'm going to have dinner with Linus. I don't wanna go out with him.

  David Larrabee : [chuckling]  Why not?

  Sabrina Fairchild : I want to be near you.

  David Larrabee : Oh, I know how you feel, Sabrina. It must be an awful bore, but if Linus wants to take you out, let's be nice about it. It's very important. He's our only ally. Don't you see, Father will try to cut off my allowance and send me off to Larrabee Copper in Butte, Montana, and we don't wanna go to Butte Montana, do we?

  Sabrina Fairchild : Hold me close, David.

  David Larrabee : We'll have a wonderful time, darling. We'll build ourselves a raft and drift across the Pacific, like Kon Tiki, or climb the highest mountain like Annapurna. Just the two of us.

• David Larrabee : What makes you so sure Sabrina still wants me?

  Linus Larrabee : Of course she wants you. She's wanted you all her life.

  David Larrabee : Until you came along in that silly homburg.

  Linus Larrabee : Well, suppose you straighten that silly straw hat and on your way. You'll miss the boat.

  David Larrabee : Don't worry. I won't miss the boat. I'm going.

  [starts walking towards the door] 

  David Larrabee : Funniest thing. Linus Larrabee, the man who doesn't burn, doesn't scorch, doesn't melt... suddenly throws a twenty million dollar deal out the window.

  [stops at the door] 

  David Larrabee : Are you sure *you* don't want to go with her?

  Linus Larrabee : Why should I want to go with her?

  David Larrabee : Because you're in love with her.

• David Larrabee : Morning, Linus. Where're you off to?

  Linus Larrabee : The office. Where do you think?

  David Larrabee : The office? On Sunday?

  Linus Larrabee : Today is Wednesday.

  David Larrabee : Wednesday?

• David Larrabee : I've been trying to write a poem to her but I... I can't seem to finish it. What rhymes with "glass"?

  Linus Larrabee : Glass... Glass... Uh...

  [snaps fingers] 

  Linus Larrabee : "Alas"!

• David Larrabee : What do we call this, mixed singles?