- Maurice Legrand: The illusion of love may survive the sight of a dingy bedroom, but inevitably one awakens.
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: Just yesterday he said if he had money, he'd dress me up nice and I wouldn't look half bad.
- Maurice Legrand: You look fine as you are.
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: And he's so talented. He does a terrific imitation of Maurice Chevalier. But he has no connections, so I have to help him.
- Maurice Legrand: You help him?
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: Yes, we've been together three years. That's like being married, isn't it?
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: I live around here.
- Maurice Legrand: May I see you to your door?
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: No, I'd best say good-bye here. I live with my family and if neighbors see me with a gentlemen...
- Adèle Legrand: My first husband would never have wasted his time fiddling around with painting!
- Maurice Legrand: Ah, yes. The sergeant.
- Adèle Legrand: That's right. The sergeant! A real man! A hero! A brave man who gave his life in 1914 for sluggards like you!
- Maurice Legrand: That wasn't my fault.
- Officemate: You and Josephine Baker - don't make me laugh! It's like saying you met old Legrand out with a pretty girl!
- André Jauguin dit Dédé: He's setting Lulu up nice. The dumb broad was talking about dropping him for me - a pimp! I spelled it out for her. Said I'd see her more often, since he's hitched. And I can take her out in society once she's smartly dressed. How would I look going out with a dame who's in cheap cotton stockings and a dime-store hat? Not me!
- Maurice Legrand: Half past midnight. I told Adèle I'd be back by midnight.
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: How time flies! And we didn't even do anything, darling.
- Maurice Legrand: When I think we've never spent a night together. I'd love to spend a whole night with you, feel your warm, soft body next to mine all night long.
- Yvonne: You love your painter?
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: I can't say I dislike it with Maurice. It's just nothing. I lay back and think of Dédé.
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: It's not disgusting like it was with old Marchal. He was the lusty type.
- Yvonne: So why did you do it with Marchal?
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: I had to when Dédé was broke. So you like my little place? What would you. have done in my place?
- André Jauguin dit Dédé: A word of advice, pal: Train them correctly right from the start. And for that you gotta know what you're doing. Especially since your dame's no spring chicken. Don't let her snow you with her diamonds and chauffeur.
- L'adjudant Alexis Godard: In September 1914, I was reported killed in action. But I was a POW in Germany under a dead pal's name. I'd taken his ID card.
- [laughs]
- L'adjudant Alexis Godard: I swapped mine for his. To get away from my wife, not the army.
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: And you could paint pictures yourself. You're as smart as old Legrand. Smarter even. I'd mix your colors and clean your brushes. It would be wonderful.
- André Jauguin dit Dédé: Would you shut up?
- [slaps Lulu]
- André Jauguin dit Dédé: You can be a real pain when you get started.
- [slaps Lulu]
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: All right, darling. I won't say any more if it bothers you. Kiss me.
- André Jauguin dit Dédé: You think blubbering is gonna help? I'll give you something to blubber about.
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: You disgust me!
- Maurice Legrand: You think I enjoyed it? If it hadn't been for your money, I'd have dumped you in a minute. Monsieur wants true love! To be loved for himself! What a laugh!
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: You slut! You're no woman. You're a bitch!
- Maurice Legrand: Talk away.
- Maurice Legrand: You lick the hand that feeds you *and* the hand that beats you!
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: If you knew how you bore me, you wouldn't waste your breath.
- Maurice Legrand: So your pimp beat you. He was right: It's the only way to treat you.
- Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu: Maybe he did, but I love him.
- Maurice Legrand: You love him?
- Le juge d'instruction Desrumaux: You know, Mr. Legrand, liaisons like that are dangerous at our age and as a rule they end badly. It's best to just stay quietly at home.
- André Jauguin dit Dédé: I pulled a few stunts, like all kids from good families. Happens in the best of circles. Sure, I accepted money from women, but they wanted me to have it. What would you have done?
- Le juge d'instruction Desrumaux: What about this white slave trade business?
- André Jauguin dit Dédé: White slave trade? O-no-no-no-no! I gave advice to young girls who wished to travel and broaden their minds. That's right - broaden their minds. Better than being dairymaids or working in a factory.