Movie Quotes from the cinema of Ernst Lubitsch

Ninotchka (1939)

Ninotchka (Greta Garbo): We don't have men like you in my country. 
Leon (Melvin Douglas): Thank you. 
Ninotchka (Greta Garbo): That is why I believe in the future of my country. 

Leon (Melvin Douglas): It's midnight. Look at the clock, one hand has met the other hand, they kiss. Isn't that wonderful? 

Ninotchka (Greta Garbo): The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians. 

Leon (Melvin Douglas): Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. 

Ninotchka (Greta Garbo): I'm so happy, I'm so happy! Nobody can be so happy without being punished. 

Ninotchka (Greta Garbo): Must you flirt? 
Leon (Melvin Douglas): Well, I don't have to, but I find it natural. 
Ninotchka (Greta Garbo): Suppress it. 

Leon (Melvin Douglas): A radio's a little box that you buy on the installment plan, and before you tune it in, they tell you there's a new model out. 

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

The Baron/Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall)
It must be the most marvelous supper. We may not eat it, but it must be marvelous.

The Baron/Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall)
Do you remember the man who walked into the Bank of Constantinople, and walked out with the Bank of Constantinople?

Mariette Colet (Kay Francis)
"You see, François, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, François, I think it would be a mistake."

The Baron/Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall)
"I came here to rob you, but unfortunately I fell in love with you."

Lily Vautier (Miriam Hopkins)
"I want you as a crook. I love you as a crook. I worship you as a crook. Steal, swindle, rob! Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos!"

To Be Or Not To Be (1942)

Colonel Ehrhardt (Sig Ruman): Oh, yes, I saw him in "Hamlet" in London. What he did to Shakespeare we are doing to Poland. 

Greenberg (Felix Bressart): Mr. Rawitch, what you are I wouldn't eat. 
Rawitch (Lionel Atwill): How dare you call me a ham? 

Maria Tura (Carole Lombard): It's becoming ridiculous the way you grab attention. If I tell a joke, you finish it. If I go on a diet, you lose the weight. If I have a cold, you cough. And if we should ever have a baby, I'm not so sure I'd be the mother. 
Josef Tura (Jack Benny): I'm satisfied to be the father. 

Anna (Maude Eburne): What a husband doesn't know won't hurt his wife. 

Professor Alexander Siletsky (Stanley Ridges): Shall we drink to a blitzkrieg? 
Maria Tura (Carole Lombard): I prefer a slow encirclement. 

Josef Tura (Jack Benny): If I shouldn't come back, I forgive you for what happened between you and Sobinski. But if I come back, it's a different matter! 

Josef Tura (Jack Benny): You can’t have your cake and shoot it too!

Colonel Ehrhardt (Sig Ruman): They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out of Bismarck, and the Fuhrer is going to end up as a piece of cheese! 

Design for Living (1933)

Max Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton): Immorality may be fun, but it isn't fun enough to take the place of one hundred percent virtue and three square meals a day. 

Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins): Boys, it's the only thing we can do. Let's forget sex. 

Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins): It's true we had a gentleman's agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman. 

Max Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton): Do you love me? 
Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins): Oh, Max, people should not ask that question on their wedding night. It's either too late or too early. 

Tom Chambers (Fredric March): It's amazing how a few insults can bring people together in three hours. 
Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins): It was certainly good to hear all the names you called me. I haven't heard them since I left father and mother. 

Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins): You see, George, you're sort of like a ragged straw hat with a very soft lining. A little bit out of shape, very dashing to look at, and very comfortable to wear. And you, Tom, piquant, perched over one eye, and has to be watched on windy days. And both so becoming. 

Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins): I'm sick of being a trademark married to a slogan. 

The Merry Widow (1934)

Count Danilo (Maurice Chevalier): Are you pretty? Or beautiful? 
Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald): Gorgeous! 

Ambassador Popoff (Edward Everett Horton): Have you ever had diplomatic relations with a woman? 

King Achmet (George Barbier): So they're blaming me, huh? 
Valet (Donald Meek): For everything. They're even telling jokes about your majesty. 
King Achmet (George Barbier): Are they funny? 
Valet (Donald Meek): No. 
King Achmet (George Barbier): That's bad. 

Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald): There's a limit to every widow. 

Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier): You're the freshest Fifi I've ever met. 
Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald): But a nice Fifi. 
Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier): How nice? 
Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald): Not too nice. 
Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier): Your right eye says yes, and your left eye says no. Fifi, you're cockeyed! 

Ambassador Pofoff (Edward Everett Horton): Adamovich. 
Adamovich (Lucien Prival): Yes, your excellency? 
Popoff (Edward Everett Horton): Go to my bedroom. In the cabinet, behind his majesty's picture, is a little brown bottle of poison... Throw it away. It's a protective measure.