Secrets of Women (1952)

Gunnar Björnstrand: Fredrik Lobelius

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• Fredrik Lobelius : No man is great in the presence of their wife.

  Karin : No. God is probably not married.

• 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.

• 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.

• Karin : Jealous?

  Fredrik Lobelius : A bit.

  Karin : It pleases me. It pleases me, my dear. It pleases me, my Othello.

• Fredrik Lobelius : We should have ended up in broken elevators more often during our 13-year marriage, you and I. What do you think?

• 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] 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Fredrik Lobelius : Women have a way of being shameless even with their husbands.

• 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.

• Fredrik Lobelius : I like women.

  Karin : And despise them.

  Fredrik Lobelius : No more than I despise myself, which isn't much.

• 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?

• Fredrik Lobelius : People shouldn't keep asking each other for forgiveness and all that nonsense.

• 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] 

• 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.