Diabolique Quotes

  • M.Drain, professeur: I may be reactionary, but this is absolutely astounding - the legal wife consoling the mistress! No, no, and no!

  • 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!

  • Alfred Fichet, le commissaire: To commit suicide in the Seine, one doesn't need to undress.

  • Alfred Fichet, le commissaire: The keys in the pool, the husband in the morgue! You dream too much about water in this house!

  • 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.

  • Nicole Horner: [to Christina] I won't have any regrets.

  • 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?

  • Christina Delassalle: Who's there? Who's there?

  • [last lines]

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

  • Nicole Horner: [handing Christina the phone] Here, take it. It doesn't bite. It doesn't slap, either.

  • 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.

  • M. Raymond, le surveillant: We all need a vacation. The body needs to eliminate its toxins. Tomorrow mademoiselle, I'll be all naked. And you, how did you plan this long weekend?

  • Christina Delassalle: Why are you trying to be nasty?

  • 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!

  • Michel Delassalle: What's the matter with me tonight? I don't want to sleep. I don't want to sleep. We have to leave.

  • M. Herboux: What the hell is she doing?

    Mme. Herboux: She's taking a bath.

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

  • M. Herboux: Bitches! Bitches! Daughter of bitches!

  • 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.

Extended Reading
  • Jedidiah 2022-04-23 07:02:32

    Psychological thriller movies still make me feel boring, the heroine is unattractive, she is about to fall asleep in the middle, and the ending is completely unexpected... It's too old school, and the shot scheduling is also a classic, but it's not interesting. It looks like a textbook.

  • Alessia 2022-01-03 08:01:18

    People are unpredictable, don't believe it. The climax clung to the hearts of the people, and finally it was a terrifying open ending.

Diabolique

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Language: French,English Release date: November 21, 1955

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