The Swan (1956)

Louis Jourdan: Dr. Nicholas Agi

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• Dr. Nicholas Agi : I never dared to think that you could give your love to me. But can you blame me now if I want to... if I want to take you and carry you off into the darkness out there? Close your eyes.

• Princess Alexandra : You should talk to me about the stars.

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : With the greatest of pleasure.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : A fencer is always in danger of revealing his intentions to his adversary - and that he must never do.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : You're so sweet and so beautiful...

  Princess Alexandra : Don't come any closer Nicholas... I've never seen a man in love and... he happens to be in love with me.

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : Are you so afraid of me?

  Princess Alexandra : Oh, if I am I want always to be afraid. I want to be so good to you. I want a hundred things. I want to tell you everything that's in my heart... I want to look after you and spoil you and... oh, eat something.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : The greatest musicians aren't always the ones who blow their own trumpets.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : I'm not hungry, Alexandra. I'm thirsty.

  Princess Alexandra : You want some wine?

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : I'm thirsty for your lips, for your eyes, for that moment when we can't even speak.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : It's easy to be clearheaded in the morning when the sun is shining.

  Princess Alexandra : And not the stars?

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : Not the stars.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : [during a fencing lesson]  Your highness, this morning we're going to practice the art of making a feint - the sham attack followed by a genuine one in another quarter. The offenser is always in danger of revealing his intentions to his adversary, and that he must never do. His opponent must never know from one moment to the next what he is thinking. Like everything else, it's a question of practice.

• Prince Albert : And you know nothing at all about music? Then I must congratulate you on your courage.

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : I fail to see why, your royal highness.

  Prince Albert : Do you? I doubt if many a practiced performer would try to take part in a duet, a trio, and a full orchestra all at the same time.