8 Women Quotes

Pierrette: As you ladies want the whole truth, I'd like to add a tidbit of information you lack.

Gaby: What is it this time?

Pierrette: Marcel and your new maid, Louise, have known each other for five years.

Gaby: What?

Pierrette: Five years of rented rooms and secret weekends. This winter you needed a maid, so Louise got hired.

[leaning in towards Gaby]

Pierrette: It's called "in-home service."

Catherine: Suzon, I forgot one thing. I heard a strange sound. I looked through Augustine's keyhole, and I saw her standing at the mirror with something shiny. I thought nothing of it, but now I'm sure she was sharpening a knife!

Augustine: You liar! I was holding my mother-of-pearl comb and cleaning it.

Gaby: At 3:00 am?

Augustine: Combs never sleep!

Suzon: Didn't you say you saw no-one?

Augustine: I forgot. I went for a drink.

Gaby: Or a prowl around Marcel's room! What happened?

Catherine: You'd know if you still slept with Dad.

Gaby: I'm being judged by my own child!

Pierrette: That's why I never had any.

Gaby: Just admit no man ever asked you to.

Louise: She

[Pierrette]

Louise: asked me to keep quiet and gave me 10,000 francs.

Pierrette: Which I regret, you hussy.

Louise: What?

Pierrette: Everyone knows you sleep around.

Louise: You know, since we sleep with the same ones, let me explain the bribe. I overheard you say to Monsieur, "Give me the money or you'll die."

Pierrette: No I said, "I'll die."

Louise: No, "You'll die."

Pierrette: My poor Louise! Your word is no good, you're just a maid.

Louise: Nor is yours. You're just a whore.

Pierrette: Which I prefer.

[last lines]

[in French, using English subtitles]

Mamy: [singing] There is no happy love.

[first lines]

[in French, using English subtitles]

Suzon: I'm going in, Mom.

Gaby: [6 of the women reenter the house after their investigation outside to find Gaby and Pierrette engaged in what appears to an act of woman-to-woman love] . Wait, it's not what you think.

Augustine: We don't need to think, we can see.