Secrets of Women (1952)
Gunnar Björnstrand: Fredrik Lobelius
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Quotes
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Fredrik Lobelius : No man is great in the presence of their wife.
Karin : No. God is probably not married.
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Fredrik Lobelius : If I can confess something to you, Karin, it is that the worst thing I know next to snakes, rats and communists is to be trapped in a very small space. I'm actually sweating a little.
Karin : The strong displays a weakness. Hooray. Hooray.
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Fredrik Lobelius : Each of us lives our own lives. We raise our children. We have our home together. The rest is complete freedom., complete discretion. C'est tout.
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Karin : Jealous?
Fredrik Lobelius : A bit.
Karin : It pleases me. It pleases me, my dear. It pleases me, my Othello.
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Fredrik Lobelius : We should have ended up in broken elevators more often during our 13-year marriage, you and I. What do you think?
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Fredrik Lobelius : Today the firm will be without a captain at the helm.
Karin : What will he be doing?
Fredrik Lobelius : He's gone ashore.
Karin : Sleeping in the arms of a bad girl.
Fredrik Lobelius : The entire day he'll sleep next to a bad girl.
[kisses Karin's cleavage]
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Fredrik Lobelius : I think you could have worn more clothes on an evening like tonight. I was terrified that the décolletage would fall into the ice cream. Most likely you were half-naked just to annoy me.
Karin : How did you guess?
Fredrik Lobelius : At your age, you should wear more clothes.
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Fredrik Lobelius : What about his concubine?
Karin : I ran into her on Sturegatan Street yesterday. She looked ready to give birth.
Fredrik Lobelius : What?
Karin : Give birth. You know, that indisposition that happens to women on occasion.
Fredrik Lobelius : I'll be damned. I thought she looked decent.
Karin : Her reputation is supposedly not the best.
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Karin : Did you hurt yourself?
Fredrik Lobelius : No! But my cigar and my glasses are destroyed. That's what happens when women fix things.
Karin : Did I build the elevator?
Fredrik Lobelius : The builder's mother was most likely a woman.
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Karin : Can't I sit on you lap?
Fredrik Lobelius : That too?
Karin : Fifteen years ago you'd have been lucky to sit like this with me.
Fredrik Lobelius : Don't be silly. Fifteen years ago you weighed less.
Karin : You're no Adonis yourself.
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Fredrik Lobelius : Women have a way of being shameless even with their husbands.
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Karin : Don't you know that women really blossom after 35?
Fredrik Lobelius : No. I refuse to know it.
Karin : Too bad. We could have a lot of fun, you and I.
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Fredrik Lobelius : I like women.
Karin : And despise them.
Fredrik Lobelius : No more than I despise myself, which isn't much.
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Fredrik Lobelius : It feels nice when you rub. You were a good physical therapist once upon a time. You'll get to massage me in the mornings like before.
Karin : Thank you, dear God. Does it feel better now?
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Fredrik Lobelius : People shouldn't keep asking each other for forgiveness and all that nonsense.
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Fredrik Lobelius : What do you like least about me?
Karin : The bossy tone. "Really? Yes. Indeed." What do you like least about me?
Fredrik Lobelius : That you tease me.
Karin : Am I teasing you now?
Fredrik Lobelius : Your cleavage is very becoming.
Karin : Can you see that in the dark?
Fredrik Lobelius : No. Not see.
[kisses Karin's cleavage]
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Karin : A little dalliance in the elevator. It'll be something to tell the grandchildren.
Fredrik Lobelius : No. Be quiet.
Karin : I'm not going to say a word.