The Deadly Affair (1967)
James Mason: Charles Dobbs
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Quotes
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Ann Dobbs : [shouting] How can you be so aggressive about your job and so gentle about me?
[Sobs]
Charles Dobbs : I've always thought that... being aggressive was the way to... keep my job and being gentle was the way to keep you.
[Reflective pause]
Charles Dobbs : Well, I've lost my job, haven't I?
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Charles Dobbs : [to Ann about her nymphomania] I've never held your appetites against you. The unaddicted shouldn't blame the addicted.
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Charles Dobbs : How long are you staying?
Dieter Frey : A few days. Business lunches, business dinners... I even have a business breakfast. Who knows? I might actually do some business too.
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Bill Appleby : Are you suggesting that Elsa might have connived in her husband's murder? That's rather a ghoulish thought, Charley.
Charles Dobbs : She's had a rather ghoulish life.
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Charles Dobbs : [to Elsa] What kind of daydreams did you dream, Mrs. Fennan, that had so little of the world in them?
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Charles Dobbs : [as Dobbs is leaving his home, sees his wife's car pull up] Hello, darling, I'm on my way out. Won't be back 'til late, don't wait up.
Ann Dobbs : [Ann Dobbs stepping out of the car] That's all right, I'm tired anyway.
Charles Dobbs : Who was it tonight ?
Ann Dobbs : [freezes and doesn't answer]
Charles Dobbs : Ah, someone I know... go back to bed, darling.
