Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Adrianne Allen: Claire Hempstead

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• Claire Hempstead : Dear, why are you treating me with this devotion?

  Jerry Corbett : Devotion?

  Claire Hempstead : Well, about as much devotion as I'd show to a boa constrictor. Is it because I treated you badly once?

  Jerry Corbett : I didn't think you knew that you had.

  Claire Hempstead : I was young and egotistical, Jerry.

  Jerry Corbett : Well, what are you now?

  Claire Hempstead : Young and egotistical.

• Jerry Corbett : [on the phone]  What would you say if I said I was coming over to see you now? Well, you might at least answer me.

  Claire Hempstead : Sir, if I said yes, I should mean no, and if I said no, I should mean yes. But my silence is all true and for you.

• Claire Hempstead : The only thing worse than a drunkard is a reformed drunkard.

• Claire Hempstead : Oh, Jerry, this is your big moment.

  Jerry Corbett : To Waterloo.

  Claire Hempstead : To Austerlitz!

• Claire Hempstead : Well, how do you feel with the curtain going up on your first play?

  Jerry Corbett : Like Napoleon before Austerlitz - or before Waterloo.

• Jerry Corbett : I'm grateful this whole thing's happened because if I had never met you again, I might have gone through life clinging to an image in my mind, a phantom that I'd been drinking to for years, when all the time I had a wonderful reality in my arms.

  Claire Hempstead : You really should save those speeches for your plays.