The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)

Ruth Chatterton: Caroline Grannard

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• Caroline Grannard : Malbro, I tell you what to do. You pursue him to the point where he either proposes to you or shoots you. If he shoots you, you're troubles are over. If he proposes, they're just beginning.

• Julian Tierney : I decided it was time to get back home - to you.

  Caroline Grannard : Yes, me and five or six others.

  Julian Tierney : If you insist on being plutonic, I'll need five or six others to take your place.

  Caroline Grannard : Oh, Julian, I wouldn't go plutonic on ya.

  Julian Tierney : Are you sure about that, Caroline.

  Caroline Grannard : Absolutely!

• Caroline Grannard : Friendship is either too nice to be plutonic or too plutonic to be nice. Did I - did I read that somewhere or did I make it up?

  Julian Tierney : Well, it isn't very good, anyhow.

• Julian Tierney : With all this burning passion you feel toward me, I think it's mean of you not to divorce Greg and marry me.

  Caroline Grannard : Mean? It's not even polite! Give me a cigarette, will you.

• Julian Tierney : If I were a woman I wouldn't trust any man. You wouldn't be dumb enough to trust me, would you, if you were married to me?

  Caroline Grannard : Not a chance. If I caught you having lunch with a pretty girl, I'd shoot her and then I'd knock you over the head with something and lock you up.

  Julian Tierney : That would be great! To be loved like that - by you.

• Caroline Grannard : You make me very angry when you talk like that.

  Julian Tierney : Hmm. I can make you angry and I can make you laugh. How about kissing me sometime? Just to see what happens.

  Caroline Grannard : Oh, Julian, you are the most impertinent villain!

• Caroline Grannard : Did they have to chase you very far before they caught you and put pants on you?

  Julian Tierney : They had to tie me down!

  Caroline Grannard : I bet it hurt.

• Caroline Grannard : But, Julian, you know you mustn't really make love to me!

• Malbro : Your the only couple in the room that doesn't look bored!

  Caroline Grannard : Of course, Julian's propositioning me. That's always interesting.

  Malbro : Why do the married women have all the luck?

• Caroline Grannard : Julian hates the exercise of standing up. He says it tends to - wear the body out.

• Caroline Grannard : Haven't you got any morals at all?

  Julian Tierney : Well, they began to ache when I was 16; so, I had them pulled out.

• Caroline Grannard : Allison, marriage is based on a great deal more than sex attraction. Sex attraction and sex congeniality are two entirely different things. I neither know, nor want to know.

• Caroline Grannard : Greg has been used to a great deal of wealth. He may not be content without it.

  Allison Adair : Greg makes $100,000 a year of his own. He told me so!

  Caroline Grannard : Oh, sometimes he makes more than that. Does that seem a great deal to you? He's been used to much more, you know.

• Caroline Grannard : I want you to sort out all Mr. Grannard's personal things and send them into town. Oh, that portrait of myself belongs to him and he adores that 18th century screen in the dining room, so, you might send that too. I want him to have the Whistler etchings and those drawings in the upper hall.

• Caroline Grannard : Mr. Tierney in?

  Max - Julian's Butler : No, ma'am. No. He ain't in.

  Caroline Grannard : Well, perhaps you better see if he's in for Mrs. Grannard.

  Max - Julian's Butler : Mrs. Grannard? Oh, yessim.

• Caroline Grannard : Julian, hold me in your arms, just for a minute, tightly. Oh, no, Julian!

  [kiss] 

  Caroline Grannard : Julian! No, please, don't! Please, Julian! Julian, I didn't mean, I mean, I mean, I-I can't kiss you. I might fall in love with you.

  Julian Tierney : I want you to.

  Caroline Grannard : Please! I can't kiss you again!

  [kiss] 

  Caroline Grannard : Oh, Julian. Julian. I can't keep on kissing you. If I'm not willing.

  Julian Tierney : Exactly.

  Caroline Grannard : Julian, get me a sip a brandy, will you.

• Caroline Grannard : I came to find out whether writers make love out of fun or curiosity.

  Malbro : Which is it?

  Caroline Grannard : Well, as far as we've gone, I should call it a normal combination of both.

• Caroline Grannard : I need so terribly much to be alone.

• Caroline Grannard : She's married to a Chinaman who acts like a Frenchman. She wants to come to America in hopes she'll find an American who acts like a Chinaman.

• Julian Tierney : Tell me, how do I look after all these years?

  Caroline Grannard : Well, you have a kind of sillier looking face than I remember.

  Julian Tierney : Have I more "It"?

• Caroline Grannard : Now, don't get conceited. As I've told you before, it isn't your face I'm in love with.

  Julian Tierney : Well, just the same, aren't you glad I didn't get too dirty a deal when the faces were passed out.

• Caroline Grannard : Now, Julian, you can't - you can't rush me off my feet like this! You know perfectly well I can't - I can't think when I'm in your arms.

  Julian Tierney : Caroline, please!

• Julian Tierney : I realize I could kiss you into needing me. But, I'm not going to do it.

  Caroline Grannard : Julian! Please, please kiss me into needing you.

• Julian Tierney : Dawn's coming.

  Caroline Grannard : I wish it wouldn't.

  Julian Tierney : So do I. Will you think I've fallen out of love with you if I light a cigarette?

  Caroline Grannard : Not if you light one for me too!

• Caroline Grannard : Whatever you say dear.

  Julian Tierney : That's the spirit. Always agree with everything I say. Always.

  Caroline Grannard : Oh, yes. I'll be a docile wife.

  Julian Tierney : All the time?

  Caroline Grannard : Well, docile at midnight, difficult at noon.

• Caroline Grannard : Julian, how'd you get away? What'd you say?

  Julian Tierney : Say? I didn't say anything. A paid a native cab man, double his fare, to gallop all the way to the airport and got a plane to take me out of the country. I didn't want to linger in any Chink jail.