No doubt you were extremely beautiful as a young girl, but your youth could never compete with your age now... your ripeness, your luxuriousness.
12 seconds sound clip from the Monsieur Verdoux movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:17:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- What nonsense! You're just on the threshold of life.
- One never begins to live until one is past, uh... uh... uh... uh...
- What difference does age make?
- I venture to say that you were never as attractive as you are now.
- On the contrary. I'm very frank.
- Besides, you have more character now, more experience, more, uh... more everything.
- Why not? Why shouldn't I respond to beauty as you did to those flowers downstairs?
- What lovely roses, you said and impulsively drew them near to your lips. Lucky roses.
- Ah, I only wish I had the courage to act upon my impulses. However, life is that way. We can't...
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