Don't be a fool! By the time you bait the hook, the fish'll be gone! Where's your common sense?
7 seconds sound clip from the Monsieur Verdoux movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:26:47 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- It's too late. It's gone. If you'd given me the rod, I would have caught him.
- The hook must be baited first.
- It's a big one! Give me... The rod! Quick! Come on! Give me the rod!
- My dear, you must wait till I bait the hook.
- Don't be a fool! By the time you bait the hook, the fish'll be gone! Where's your common sense?
- I'm putting a worm on the hook.
- A worm?
- Disgusting! You don't expect me to eat fish that's been eating worms, do you?
- Very well, my dear. We'll fish without them.
- Good.
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