Marcel:
Madame? A word with you.
Eve Peabody: With me?
Marcel: Yes, with you.
Eve Peabody: I thought so. Well, all right, let's get it over with.
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
Eve Peabody: With me?
Marcel: Yes, with you.
Eve Peabody: I thought so. Well, all right, let's get it over with.
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
Jacques Picot:
[Trying to describe Helene's hat] Well, it's...
Eve Peabody: Oh, I think it's a dream on you. You know, it does something for your face. It gives you a chin.
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
Eve Peabody: Oh, I think it's a dream on you. You know, it does something for your face. It gives you a chin.
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
Jacques Picot:
I'm terribly sorry. It's difficult to concentrate on cards... sometimes.
Eve Peabody: [Referring to Jacques' dislike of Helene's feathered hat] Naturally, when you're worrying about the future of the ostrich plume.
Helene Flammarion: I don't think that's very funny.
Jacques Picot: I do.
Eve Peabody: Well, thanks.
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
Eve Peabody: [Referring to Jacques' dislike of Helene's feathered hat] Naturally, when you're worrying about the future of the ostrich plume.
Helene Flammarion: I don't think that's very funny.
Jacques Picot: I do.
Eve Peabody: Well, thanks.
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
Tom Martin:
You know, it's a funny thing that you of all people should be sitting beside me. You're precisely my type.
Augusta Nash: Mmm-hmm. How long were you in that prison?
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Arise, My Love
Augusta Nash: Mmm-hmm. How long were you in that prison?
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Arise, My Love
Cleopatra:
So Rome would forgive and take you back? And all they demand is for us to part. Why don't they ask the sun to fall right out of the sky?
--Claudette Colbert (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra
--Claudette Colbert (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra
Cleopatra:
Women should be but toys for the great. It becomes them both.
--Claudette Colbert (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra
--Claudette Colbert (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra
Dr. Jane Everest:
Everyone's had their crack-up around here; I feel I'm entitled to mine.
--Claudette Colbert (as Dr. Jane Everest) in Private Worlds
--Claudette Colbert (as Dr. Jane Everest) in Private Worlds
Eve Peabody:
[at the ball] Don't forget, every Cinderella has her midnight.
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
Eve Peabody:
[Discussing her career as a gold-digger] I landed a lord, almost.
Tibor Czerny: Almost?
Eve Peabody: Well, the family came between us. His mother came to my hotel and offered me a bribe.
Tibor Czerny: You threw her out, I hope!
Eve Peabody: How could I, with my hands full of money?
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
Tibor Czerny: Almost?
Eve Peabody: Well, the family came between us. His mother came to my hotel and offered me a bribe.
Tibor Czerny: You threw her out, I hope!
Eve Peabody: How could I, with my hands full of money?
--Claudette Colbert (as ) in Midnight
