Diabolique Quotes

Christina Delassalle: Don't you believe in Hell?

Nicole Horner: Not since I was seven.

Christina Delassalle: I do.

Michel Delassalle: [embarrassing Christina in the dining room while she is trying to eat some distasteful fish] Everyone is looking at you. Swallow.

Nicole Horner: It's disgusting!

Michel Delassalle: Sorry?

Nicole Horner: [angrily] Some things are hard to swallow, and I'm not talking about the fish.

Christina Delassalle: [to Nicole] I'd like to die and not see him anymore.

Michel Delassalle: Die, darling! Die and do it quickly!

Plantiveau, le concierge: Watch out, ma'am. That's the deep part where you are.

Christina Delassalle: There is no danger. I can swim.

Plantiveau, le concierge: That don't mean a thing. It's always the ones who know how that get drowned. The ones who can't, don't go near the pool.

[first lines]

Plantiveau, le concierge: Headmaster!

Michel Delassalle: Yes.

Plantiveau, le concierge: Isn't it time I rang the bell?

Michel Delassalle: It's okay. I'll unload the car myself.

Michel Delassalle: Swallow it.

Christina Delassalle: It's not my fault. It won't go down.

Michel Delassalle: Swallow!

[repeated lines]

Alfred Fichet, le commissaire: I'll find him.

Christina Delassalle: So it's a coincidence?

Nicole Horner: A coincidence, yes.

Christina Delassalle: And Fichet. Was his being at the morgue a coincidence? And the suit. And the hotel. And now the children! Is it a coincidence that it's getting closer and closer?

[last lines]

Moinet, une jeune Moynet: I saw her. I know I did.

M.Drain, professeur: [Noticing Nicole wearing sun glasses] Do your eyes hurt you, dear colleague?

Nicole Horner: I hurt myself getting up.

M.Drain, professeur: You're up early. Last night, I was doing my rounds about 4:00 am and I heard screams coming out of your room. The chaste woman loves to contemplate dawn, doesn't she?

Nicole Horner: You spent too much time with the Jesuits.

Michel Delassalle: A sick person shouldn't worry about her appearance.

Christina Delassalle: I'm not sick.

Nicole Horner: She's delicate, you know it.

Michel Delassalle: Delicate? Yes, when she came from Caracas. Today, she's a cute little ruin. She doesn't risk anything. Ruins are indestructible. She'll bury us all. Won't you, my little ruin?

Student #1: Will your sister still be in the bathroom?

Student #2: If we get there before 10:00. You'll see, I made a hole.

Student #1: Give me the pack back!

Student #2: You'll see my sister naked. It's worth a pack of cigarettes.

Student #1: No! Give them back!

M. Herboux: What the hell is she doing?

Mme. Herboux: She's taking a bath.

M. Herboux: At 10:00 pm? Funny habits.

Christina Delassalle: There is only one possible end. We are monsters. I don't like monsters.

Nicole Horner: If it's only him, I feel better. I'll save the grain of sand falling from the hands of providence for my morality lessons.