Lolita (1962)

Shelley Winters: Charlotte Haze

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Quotes 

• Charlotte Haze : Do you believe in God?

  Humbert Humbert : The question is does God believe in me?

• Clare Quilty : Listen, didn't you... didn't you have a daughter? Didn't you have a daughter with a lovely name? Yeah! A lovely... What was it now? A lovely, lyrical, lilting name, like, uh... uh...

  Charlotte Haze : Lo-li-ta!

  Clare Quilty : Lolita, that's right, Lolita. Diminutive of Dolores, "The Tears and the Roses."

  Charlotte Haze : Wednesday she's going to have a cavity filled by your Uncle Ivor.

  Clare Quilty : Yes. Hahahahaha... Yes.

• Charlotte Haze : Hum, you just touch me and I... I... I go as limp as a noodle. It scares me.

  Humbert Humbert : Yes, I know the feeling.

• Charlotte Haze : [to Humbert]  Oh, you MAN!

• Charlotte Haze : I forbid you to disturb Professor Humbert again. He is a writer and he is not to be disturbed.

  Lolita Haze : [makes the Nazi salute]  Sieg heil!

• Charlotte Haze : There's a nice view from this window... of the front lawn.

• Charlotte Haze : Is, um, Madame Humbert, um...

  Humbert Humbert : There's no "Madame". We are divorced...

  Charlotte Haze : Oh...

  Humbert Humbert : *Happily* divorced.

  Charlotte Haze : When did all this happen?

  Humbert Humbert : About a year ago - in Paris.

  Charlotte Haze : Oh, Paris, France, madame... You know, monsieur, I really believe that it's only in the Romance Languages that one is able to really relate in a mature fashion. In fact I remember when the late Mr. Haze and I... when we were on our honeymoon abroad, I knew that I'd never felt married until I'd heard myself addressed as "Senora".

  Humbert Humbert : So you were in Spain?

  Charlotte Haze : No, Mexico!

  Humbert Humbert : Oh, Mexico, mm-hmm!

• Charlotte Haze : Oh M'sieur, if what you're needing is peace and quiet, I can assure you you couldn't get more peace anywhere, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

• Charlotte Haze : Now, this would be your room. It's what you might call a studio, well, you know, a semi-studio affair. It's very male - and quiet.

• Humbert Humbert : You have a maid living in the house?

  Charlotte Haze : Why, monsieur, Ramsdale is not Paris. No, the colored girl comes three times a week. We think we're lucky to get her, but she does do shirts very well.

• Charlotte Haze : [to Humbert]  You must see the garden before you go, you must. My flowers win prizes around here. They're the talk of the neighborhood. Voila! My yellow roses, my - my daughter.

  [to Lolita, in bikini, sunbathing in the garden, listening to the radio] 

  Charlotte Haze : Darling, turn that down, please.

  [to Humbert] 

  Charlotte Haze : I can offer you a comfortable home, a sunny garden, a congenial atmosphere - my cherry pies.

  [Lolita lowers her glasses to peek coyly at Humbert] 

• Humbert Humbert : You're a very persuasive saleswoman.

  Charlotte Haze : Thank you. What was the decisive factor? My garden?

  Humbert Humbert : I think it was your - cherry pies.

• Charlotte Haze : I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long?

  Humbert Humbert : No, not at all.

  Charlotte Haze : I thought I'd change into something cozier.

  Humbert Humbert : Charming.

  Charlotte Haze : You don't think it's - a little too risqué?

• Humbert Humbert : I wonder if you aren't being too liberal with her?

  Charlotte Haze : Liberal? Oh, you dear man, you dear, sweet, naive man.

  Humbert Humbert : No, I don't think you realize that she's beginning to grow up!

  Charlotte Haze : Of course she's beginning to grow up and it's only natural and healthy that she should take an interest in those fascinating creatures known as: "the opposite sex."

• Charlotte Haze : Humbert Humbert, what a thrillingly different name. Do you pronounce the surname differently, you know, in a slightly lower tone? Let me see now, Humbert. What was that, the first or the second?

• Humbert Humbert : I have no sense of rhythm.

  Charlotte Haze : I refuse to believe that about you. Rhythm is so basic and it just pours out of you, you simply vibrate rhythm.

• Charlotte Haze : Must you pamper your pimples!

• Humbert Humbert : Charlotte, I haven't even had my morning cup of coffee yet.

  Charlotte Haze : You want me to make you some?

  Humbert Humbert : Please do that, like a good little wife.

• Charlotte Haze : Hum, baby, you know, I love the way you smell. You do arouse the pagan in me.

• Charlotte Haze : I wouldn't care if your maternal grandfather turned out to be a Turk.

• Charlotte Haze : Are you sending her to that Camp Climax again?

  Jean Farlow : Of course. We've done it every summer, since she was ten.

  John Farlow : It gives Jean and me a chance to catch up on our homework.