The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 5

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Listen to famous short quotes from The Shop Around the Corner (1940) freely downloadable in MP3 / WAV format.

Actors: James Stewart (Alfred Kralik), Margaret Sullavan (Klara Novak), Frank Morgan (Hugo Matuschek), William Tracy (Pepi Katona)

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41 Oh, I didn't bring you that bottle of perfume? Well, you're never going to get it! What do you think of that? Your perfume days are over, Mrs. M!

— Pepi Katona (William Tracy)

42 See, I'm afraid I sort of exaggerated in my letters. I showed off a little, you know. She's expecting to meet a pretty important man. Well, I'm in no mood to act important tonight.

— Alfred Kralik (James Stewart)

43 She is the most wonderful girl in the world. -Is she pretty? -She has such ideals and such a viewpoint on things that she's so far above the girls you meet today, there's no comparison. -So, she is not so very pretty.

— Alfred Kralik (James Stewart)

44 So, you know every reaction of mine, huh? You know me inside out? You know what I think even before I thought of it. You're not only a genius, you're a mind reader.

— Hugo Matuschek (Frank Morgan)

45 Speaking of gypsy music, we've had a lot of trouble selling those Ochi Tchornya boxes, haven't we?

— Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan)

46 There are so many great and beautiful things to discuss in this world of ours it would be wasting these precious moments if we told each other the vulgar details of how we earn our daily bread. So don't let's do it.

— Alfred Kralik (James Stewart)

47 There's no denying that we all have a weakness for candy. And when I say weakness I don't mean to say anything against candy. Oh, no. I only mean that sometimes we are inclined to overdo it a little. -I suppose so.

— Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan)

48 Well, doctor, I would say it's a nervous breakdown. What do you think? -It appears to be an acute epileptoid manifestation and a panphobic melancholiac with some indication of a neurasthenia cordus. -Is that more expensive than a nervous breakdown?

— Pepi Katona (William Tracy)

49 Well, I can see by the expression on your underpaid faces that you wonder where I get all this money. -No, Mr. Vadas, I don't wonder. -What do you mean? -I just mean, I don't wonder.
50 Well, you see, I was a different girl, then. I was really rather naive. All my knowledge came from books and I'd just finished a novel about a glamorous French actress from the Comedie Francaise. That's a theater in France.

— Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan)

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