Olivia (1951)

Edwige Feuillère: Mademoiselle Julie

Quotes 

• Mlle. Julie : Everything will be alright, Olivia. Our God is not as exacting as that of Miss Stock.

• Mlle. Cara : You don't love me, no one does !

  Mlle. Julie : Yes, Cara, I do love you. All I wish for you is that you be cured and well again.

  Mlle. Cara : No you don't ! You don't care if I live or die !

  Mlle. Julie : How unfair you are ! I have done everything to ensure you are comfortable and well looked-after !

  Mlle. Cara : Oh, you're so perfect ! Well I don't need you !

  Mlle. Julie : Cara, how can you say such an awful thing ?

  Mlle. Cara : Because it's true ! You steal them away from me ! I was counting on Olivia, but you stole her from me too ! Oh, I wish I were dead ! I just want to die !

  Mlle. Julie : But Cara, I would give my life for yours !

  Mlle. Cara : Your life, perhaps, but not your darling friends whose affections you have stolen away from me ! Laura, Olivia... but must you have them all !

• Mlle. Julie : Je t'aime bien, mon enfant... plus que tu ne crois. I love you, my child... more than you believe.

• Mlle. Julie : Jamais, c'est un petit mot... tres court. Tu verras. Never is a small word, very short. You will see.

• Mlle. Julie : All my inmost joys have been spoilt, my deepest secrets, and now I must say goodbye to all that I have loved. Even to you, Olivia, even to you.

• Mlle. Julie : Can one of you tell me who Andromache was? Let's see? I cannot believe you are all so ignorant.

  Olivia Dealey : Andromache was Hector's wife.

  Mlle. Julie : Good. What's Orestes' father's name?

  Olivia Dealey : Agamemnon.

  Mlle. Julie : Good! Who was Pyrrhus?

  Olivia Dealey : Achilles' son.

  Mlle. Julie : And Hermione?

  Olivia Dealey : I don't know. I've never heard of her.

  Mlle. Julie : You'll hear about her tonight. And I hope you will never forget. You answered well. Sit here, beside me. Hermione is the daughter of Helen and Menelaus.

• Mlle. Julie : Your mother told me you were unhappy with Miss Tock.

  Olivia Dealey : It's true. I was unhappy.

  Mlle. Julie : Yet it is a Protestant school, like ours.

  Olivia Dealey : Oh no, Mademoiselle. I felt like a freak, a black sheep, an outcast.

  Mlle. Julie : Are you not exaggerating?

  Olivia Dealey : It was even worse.

  Mlle. Julie : Why? Tell me, Olivia.

  Olivia Dealey : They only spoke of temptations, traps, abysses opening before us. A lie, even a careless one, meant moral and spiritual death. No good deeds, good sentiments or sacrifices could save us, save the Grace of the Eternal. I could hardly count on it, coming from a family of free spirits.

• Mlle. Julie : What are you reading so late?

  Olivia Dealey : "The Lake"

  Mlle. Julie : To learn it by heart?

  Olivia Dealey : I wanted to hear the sound of your voice.

  Mlle. Julie : "Stay thy flight, O time! And happy hours, Tread by slowly, Let us savor the swift pleasures, Of our fairest days" There. Now get some rest. Shut your eyes.

  [Mlle. Julie kisses Olivia's shut eye, Olivia grabs her hand and kisses it multiple times] 

  Mlle. Julie : Come now, Olivia! You're too passionate, my dear. Good night.

• Mlle. Julie : You will never be beautiful per se, and yet lovely eyes, a lovely mouth, a lovely body. Grace, Olivia, is sometimes preferable.

• Mlle. Julie : Let me tell you a secret. I will come tonight. I will bring you bon-bons.

• Mlle. Julie : One cannot kill oneself without killing many other things around.

• Mlle. Julie : God, I am so weary. I'm so tired. Everything's been ruined. My purest affections, my most secret thoughts. Now, I must bid farewell to all that I love.

• Mlle. Julie : You have been granted many gifts and true grace. It would be a shame to waste it in illusions.