Quotes

French Without Tears

Cmdr. Bill Rogers: Uh, what you're implying is that this girl is, uh, rather fast?
Alan Howard: Well, I'm not implying it, I'm saying it.
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: You sound admitted.
Alan Howard: Oh, dear me, no. Both Brian and I - for reasons that we won't go into now, are immune. Only I thought it as well to let you know before you meet her, that Diana Lake - oh, a dear girl in many ways, is a little unreliable in her emotional life.

Alan Howard: She loves getting innocent young men into cold water.
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: Well, personally, I rather like an early morning dip.
Alan Howard: An early morning dip?
Diana Lake: I quite agree with you, Cmdr. Rogers. I don't think there's anything nicer than a swim before breakfast.

Diana Lake: Oh, I suppose you find Alan a bit startling, don't you?
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: Oh, yes, he's a bit startling.
Diana Lake: Well, he's really very nice, but you mustn't take everything he says too seriously, because you see, he's just a teeny bit, you know, unbalanced.
[pointing to her head]
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: Oh, really?
Diana Lake: I thought it was well to warn you.

Brian Curtis: Well, we ought to be able to tell the commander by his rolling gait.
Alan Howard: What, in this time of the morning?
Brian Curtis: No, no, boy, you misunderstand me. Drunk or sober, all sailors have a rolling gait.

Diana Lake: [pointing to a picture on the wall] Oh, is that your boat?
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: [trying to hold back a look of disgust] Yes, that's my... boat.

Diana Lake: Allen, much as I like you, there are times when I could cheerfully strangle you.
Alan Howard: Is this one of them, darling?
Diana Lake: Yes, Ducky, it is.
Alan Howard: That's just what I'd hoped.

Chris Neilan: Diana, you won't forget about our tourney?
Diana Lake: Of course not.
Alan Howard: Uh, Chris. Did Diana go into the water?
Chris Neilan: No, why?
Diana Lake: Why, Chris.
Alan Howard: Chris! You of all people - an early morning dipper. Why, I believe this girl could make you go for a bicycle tour in the Pyrenees, if she set her mind to it.
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: I once went for a bicycle tour in the Pyrenees.
Alan Howard: Really?

Diana Lake: Yes, poor Alan. I'm afraid he's got it very badly.
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: Got what?
Diana Lake: Oh, I don't know what this is. It's so funny, because from the way he behaved, there's many things he says about me. You'd think he hates me, wouldn't you?
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: Yes, you would. Doesn't he?
Diana Lake: Oh, no. Far from it.
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: Oh, heh, heh, well, you see... you mean he's rather keen on you?
Diana Lake: Oh, I don't want to give him away. It wouldn't be fair. But if he tries to give you the impression that I'm a scheming wrecker of men's lives, you needn't necessarily believe him.
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: No, of course I won't. But I don't quite see why he should, you know.
Diana Lake: Well, you see Commander Rogers, I like Alan. But I don't like him as much as, perhaps, he wants me to.

Alan Howard: You'd like anything which gives you the opportunity of coming down to breakfast in your bathing dress.
Diana Lake: Does it shock you, Alan?
Alan Howard: Unalterably!
Diana Lake: Well, I'll go and change then.
Alan Howard: Oh, don't bother. You've made one successful entrance. Don't spoil it by making another.
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: I don't think I quite understand you.
Alan Howard: Diana does.

Prof. Maingot: Monsieur Howard, please answer the phone. I am busy with a poor young idiot.

Alan Howard: I suppose you're going to find this a rather change after your boat, commander.
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: You mean my ship, don't you?
Alan Howard: Your ship?
Cmdr. Bill Rogers: Yes, we call her a ship in the Navy.

Cmdr. Bill Rogers: This is my first time in France.
Alan Howard: Then you're bound to be a bit at sea, commander. Heh, heh, I thought that was rather good. Didn't you?

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By what name was French Without Tears (1940) officially released in India in English?