Café Metropole (1937)

Gregory Ratoff: Paul, Real Prince Alexis Paneiev

Quotes 

• Paul : Have you forgotten who I am? Do you realize that Panaieff is the name of the family who for the last 300 years were related to the czars of Russia 25 times? 5 times legitimately! Why I'd rather have my blood changed to borscht.

  [mumbles] 

• Paul : [the real Prince Alexis Paneiff]  Why, I'd rather have my blood changed to borscht.

• Paul : [to Victor]  As it is, the whole preposterous scheme is out of the question. You I can forgive, because you are such an unmitigated scoundrel -- you might have been a member of my own family.

• Paul : [the real Prince Alexis Paneiff]  Victor, Victor! How could you fail to recognize the one who used to tip you in one evening enough money to pay my salary as a waiter for the entire year?

  Monsieur Victor Lobard : I can only beg pardon of your serene highness for the one blunder of my life.

  Paul : Granted.

• Paul : [to Victor]  Why, you refined scallion!