Marian Marsh Quotes

Billee You're wonderful. You're the sweetest thing I've ever known. When we're married, I want to take you to England, and to my mother... She'll be proud of you, Trilby. Proud of you as I am.

Trilby O'Farrell Tell me: what's England like?

Billee Oh, England's beautiful! Green fields, and hedgerows and hollyhocks, primroses...

Svengali ... and fog, and pneumonia, and shopkeepers, and flat feet, and boiled beef and cabbage - ha, ha, ha! Trilby in England would be like a butterfly in mutton soup!

Trilby O'Farrell Svengali, I've tried, but I...

Svengali Ja, ja, ja, ja. But you know very well why you can't. It is the magnificent young Englander. The head of the Purity Brigade. Sir Galahad. This stiff-necked little Billie... What is he, Liebchen? With his silly paints in one hand, and these twiddling brushes of pig's bristles in the other... What does he amount to, compared to Svengali? Ah, he paints his silly pictures and sends them to London, where they hang up on the wall like... dead soldiers on parade. And the people pass in a long procession - "ah" - and yawn. Svengali will go to London himself! Where he will be all alone on a platform. And Princesses. And Countesses. And serene Highnesses will fling him their jewels, and applaud, and invite him to their palaces. And he will take you with him. I never look at them. Ah, we could be so happy.

Trilby O'Farrell But I... I don't like palaces.

Svengali No. Nor anything else that other women like. Except the little Bi--. Look at me .. in the eyes!

Svengali Open your eyes.

Trilby O'Farrell Oh, I do love you!

Svengali Close your eyes.

Trilby O'Farrell I love...

Svengali Ah, don't say it! You are beautiful, my manufactured love. But it is only Svengali talking to himself again.

Trilby O'Farrell What'd he do?

Monsieur Taffy He hypnotized you!

The Laird Yeah, and don't you ever let him do it again! Those fella's can make you do anything and say anything they want. Lie, steal, *anything*!

Billee And then they make you kill yourself when they're done with ya'.

The Laird Yeah, they do that.

Trilby O'Farrell But he took my pain away!

Billee I'd rather have the pain than have it cured like that!