- Henry de Jouvenel: I'm a man of conscience
- Colette: With your physique, should be to you a man of caresses
- Henry de Jouvenel: [laughing,embarrassed] Well, Well...!
- Henry de Jouvenel: It's already difficult to make happy a woman, so Colette...
- Bertrand: ...is a woman full of gift and love. Well it seems to to me.
- Colette: Failure is celebrated. Go, come.
- Bertrand: But I had it, my high school diploma ! It's the distinction, which I don't have.
- Camarade de Bertrand: [to Colette] Madam, you bring champagne to your son, what a chance he has !
- Bertrand: [scornful] What a idiotic !
- Colette: Why you tell that ?
- [Bertrand de Jouvenel stare at Colette with intensity]
- Willy: [to the spectators of the Moulin-Rouge] You're just an assembly of unreliable fellows ! You don't know anything with art ! Signed : Willy !
- Colette: [off, final line] And as we have to age, follow the way, and only lay down you there to die.
- Henry de Jouvenel: Pretty rings.
- Colette: You could have said "pretty hands".
- Henry de Jouvenel: I'm sorry, I'd not noticed them.
- Colette: [having caught her husband Willy with Lotte, she approaches a young man] 'Scuse me, sir... you want that we are going to make love?
- Young man: Now?
- Colette: No... in a hotel. You don't like the hotels?
- Young man: Yes, on the contrary... I adore the hotels!
- Willy: I advise you Le Ritz...Very good pigeon !