Suspicion Quotes

[first lines]

Johnnie: Oh, I beg your pardon. Was that your leg? I had no idea we were going into a tunnel. I thought the compartment was empty.

Johnnie: You thought I was going to kiss you, didn't you?

Lina: Weren't you?

Johnnie: Of course not. I was merely reaching around you, trying to fix your hair.

Lina: What's wrong with my hair?

Johnnie: Well, I'm glad you asked me that. It would've been extremely discourteous for me to bring the subject up.

[Lina starts to button her blouse]

Johnnie: Don't do that.

Lina: Why not?

Johnnie: Because your ucipital mapilary is quite beautiful.

Lina: What's an ucipital mapilary?

Johnnie: That.

Lina: You don't need to touch it.

[Johnnie and Lina are facing a large portrait of her father]

Johnnie: He doesn't like me.

Lina: I know.

Johnnie: He doesn't trust me from here to there.

Johnnie: [speaking to the portrait] Do you? Well, you're right. I can only bring her unhappiness. Well, warn her. Speak up, man. It's your last chance.

Johnnie: [to Lina] Hear him?

Lina: Very distinctly.

Johnnie: He's not exaggerating a thing, dear. It's all true, every word he isn't saying.

Lina: I love him, father.

Johnnie: Did you see him jump?

Lina: I did.

Johnnie: Well, watch this one.

Johnnie: [speaking to the portrait] Sir, I have the honor of asking for your daughter's hand in marriage. Well, what do you say to that?

Johnnie: [tapping on the portrait which then falls off the wall] My oh my. You heard him that time, didn't you?

[Lina asks Johnnie how he intends to support them]

Johnnie: Well, if the worst comes to the worst and there's no other way out, I'll have to...

Lina: What?

Johnnie: Borrow some more.

Lina: [about a murder in one of her novels] When he enticed his victim across the footbridge, knowing that the bridge has been sawn through...

Isobel Sedbusk: He also knew that his victim couldn't swim. Don't forget that.

Lina: Well, what I want to know is this. Would you call that an actual murder?

Isobel Sedbusk: Well, from a moral standpoint there's no question at all. It is murder.

Isobel Sedbusk: Imagine a substance in daily use everywhere. Anyone can lay his hands on it, and within a minute after taking, the victim's beautifully out of the way. Mind you, it's undetectable after death.

Lina: Is whatever it is, painful?

Isobel Sedbusk: Oh, not in the least. In fact I should think it'd be a most pleasant death.

Photographer: I wonder if I could have just a little bit more of your smile?

Johnnie: Oh, now, not at this hour of the morning.

Johnnie: What do you think of me by contrast to your horse?

Lina: If I ever got the bit between your teeth, I'd have no trouble in handling you at all.

Mrs. McLaidlaw: I'm afraid she's rather spinsterish.

General McLaidlaw: What's wrong with that? The old maid's a respectable institution. All women are not alike. Lina has intellect and a fine solid character.

Lina: Why are you frank with me, because I'm... different?

Johnnie: No, no, it isn't that. I'm honest because with you I think it's the best way to get results.

Lina: Are you courting me?

Johnnie: I'm afraid I am.

Lina: This is a wonderful moment.

Johnnie: Do you hear the music?

Lina: Very clearly.

Johnnie: Well, let's dance, before I... Before we...

Lina: Let's dance.

Lina: Are you broke?

Johnnie: Monkeyface, I've been broke all my life.

Lina: There's going to be no more borrowing.

Johnnie: What else is there to do?

Lina: You've got to go to work.

Johnnie: Work?

[repeated line]

Beaky: Put my foot in it as usual, have I?

Johnnie: What have we to drink in the house?

Ethel: Gin, brandy, champagne and Pimm's No.1, sir.

Johnnie: Well, bring them all, Ethel, and get a move on.

Lina: You're not being fair to Johnnie.

Beaky: That's a bit thick. Why, he's president of the whole bally thingamajig.

Isobel Sedbusk: I never knew you were such a *murder* story fan.

Lina: [in suspecting Johnnie of contemplating murder] Neither did I until recently.

Johnnie: Darling, you're not shivering, are you?

Lina: I have a bit of a chill.

Johnnie: Cold in all this sunshine? Well, let me warm you up. My poor little shivering baby. How do you feel now? Better?

Lina: Much.

Johnnie: Good. Perhaps this will help.

[Johnnie takes Lina and kisses her passionately]

Johnnie: This reminds me of the day we first met on the top of the hill when you wouldn't let me unbutton the top button of your blouse. Do you remember?

Lina: I shall never forget it.

Johnnie: Well, get undressed, old girl. What are you waiting for?

Lina: If I'd only understood. Oh, Johnnie. But it will be different now. We'll make it different.

Johnnie: People don't change overnight, Lina. I'm no good.