The Happy Time Quotes

The Happy Time is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . The Happy Time completed its run in 1970.

It features Earl Felton as producer, Dimitri Tiomkin in charge of musical score, and Charles Lawton Jr. as head of cinematography.

The Happy Time is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Happy Time is 94 minutes long. The Happy Time is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Marsha Hunt as Susan Bonnard, Marcel Dalio as Grandpere Bonnard, Charles Boyer as Jacques Bonnard, Louis Jourdan as Uncle Desmond Bonnard, Kurt Kasznar as Uncle Louis Bonnard, and Edward Clark as Dr. Marchaud.

The Happy Time Quotes

Marsha Hunt as Susan Bonnard

• (Unnamed) "Look, maman, what Uncle Desmond sent. A photograph of himself and two nice ladies."
• (Marsha Hunt) "Nice ladies. Jacques, will you look at this? Bibi, go up and wash your hands."
• (Unnamed) "They're not dirty."
• (Marsha Hunt) "At once."
• (Marsha Hunt) "Well? You know what's on my mind. Show it to Grandpa."
• (Marcel Dalio) "Too skinny."
• (Marsha Hunt) "What do you suppose Bibi thinks of a thing like this?"
• (Charles Boyer) "Thinks? He thinks nothing. He's only happy that Desmond remembered his birthday."
• (Marsha Hunt) "But these women. Who ARE they? WHAT are they? You know Bibi imitates all of you. He's even picked up Desmond's trick with the medals."
• (Marcel Dalio) "With the same results."
• (Marsha Hunt) "Be still. Jacques, he'll realize what this is all about someday."
• (Charles Boyer) "Eh. When he's old enough to realize, he'll be old enough to understand."
• (Marsha Hunt) "That Desmond-he's becoming the most roving eye in Ottawa. With everything else, does he have to be a traveling salesman? I shudder to think what is happening to women all over Canada."
• (Marcel Dalio) "We have had no reports from the outlying provinces."
• (Charles Boyer) "Don't worry about Desmond. One of these days he will change and settle down."
• (Marsha Hunt) "That's a transformation devoutly to be wished."
• (Marcel Dalio) "You quote?"
• (Marsha Hunt) "Shakespeare."
• (Marcel Dalio) "Ah. There was an Englishman with glands."

• (Marsha Hunt) "Bibi, what have you got on your sleeves?"
• (Unnamed) "They're too long. Before he left town, Uncle Desmond gave me some garters to hold them up."
• (Marsha Hunt) "Women's garters. Take them off. Look at them. Off some -- stranger's legs."
• (Marcel Dalio) "To Desmond she was not a stranger."
• (Marsha Hunt) "Jacques."
• (Charles Boyer) "Calm yourself, my love. My brother is young."
• (Marsha Hunt) "Your son is younger."
• (Charles Boyer) "And after all, there is no great harm in catching garters that are thrown from the stage of the Casino Burlesque. It's done by some of our most distinguished citizens. It's a form of sport."
• (Marsha Hunt) "I don't want garters from the burlesque on my son's arms."
• (Unnamed) "Only one is from the burlesque. The other was obtained privately."
• (Charles Boyer) "Now, Bibi-in the world of men, one does not talk too much. It's enough to have the garters; one does not volunteer the information where they were obtained. You will understand when you are a man."
• (Unnamed) "Papa? When will I be?"
• (Charles Boyer) "What?"
• (Unnamed) "When will I be a man?"
• (Charles Boyer) "Soon enough."
• (Marcel Dalio) "There is a law of nature, called la puberté, and it is widespread among all animals, being the awakening of a natural appetite. Life will taste better then-like a good soup. It is the seasoning that counts. But it is a hard appetite to satisfy, believe me."

• (Marsha Hunt) "Grandpa."
• (Marcel Dalio) "Ah, bon soir. I'm late."
• (Marsha Hunt) "Where are you going?"
• (Marcel Dalio) "Out."
• (Marsha Hunt) "You should be in bed."
• (Marcel Dalio) "It is only a matter of time."

Louis Jourdan as Uncle Desmond Bonnard

• (Unnamed) "Your trip, Uncle Desmond-were there many adventures?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "Well, you know, Bibi: where Desmond's horses trot, no grass will grow."
• (Charles Boyer) "What are you doing in Ottawa? Have you lost your job?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "No, the sales manager lost his. Bibi, bring us some glasses."
• (Charles Boyer) "What do you mean?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "He's dead. He has unscrewed his billiard table. So the office sent for me."
• (Charles Boyer) "To offer you the job?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "Well, an office, a desk, a secretary --"
• (Charles Boyer) "And you said yes."
• (Louis Jourdan) "No, I said no."
• (Charles Boyer) "You said no? Why?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "You should see the secretary."

Edward Clark as Dr. Marchaud

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Charles Boyer as Jacques Bonnard

• (Unnamed) "I won't go back to school. I'll never go back to school. I didn't do it-it isn't fair. Why do I have to tell lies to escape a beating?"
• (Charles Boyer) "What-what's the matter? What happened? What is it at that school? Maman. Who beat you?"
• (Marsha Hunt) "Beating? What beating?"
• (Charles Boyer) "Come on, Bibi. Now, please, stop crying and tell us, what happened?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "What is this of a beating?"
• (Unnamed) "In school, the principal finds a dirty picture. It's from my 'Gay Paree' which I have taken there."
• (Louis Jourdan) "Now, wait. They are not dirty pictures in Le Gay Paree. They are, it is true, pictures of women with few clothes, but this is not dirty. Ah, no."
• (Unnamed) "But this is only the beginning. It is a picture of a girl, standing like so"
• (Marsha Hunt) "Jacques."
• (Charles Boyer) "This is not dirty."
• (Unnamed) "But in this picture, on the head, instead of the face of the girl in the magazine, there's drawn the face of Miss Tate, my teacher."
• (Louis Jourdan) "This is -- indelicate, but it is still not dirty."
• (Unnamed) "But also with the pencil, many things have been added."
• (Kurt Kasznar) "THIS could be dirty."

• (Charles Boyer) "Believe me, my love; this bird, in his song-which I understand completely-has expressed a desire to live his own life. It is a desire that must be respected."
• (Unnamed) "How do you know what he wants, papa?"
• (Marsha Hunt) "Your father, it seems, understands the language of birds. The first day we met, he told me that he'd been speaking with a lark, who wished us to visit him in the woods."
• (Unnamed) "This is how it happened?"
• (Charles Boyer) "This is how it began."
• (Marcel Dalio) "And you-the bird's wish was granted? You went into the woods with him?"
• (Marcel Dalio) "You cannot be all Scotch."
• (Marcel Dalio) "And you are even better than I thought."

• (Charles Boyer) "I think you and I should have a little talk. Sit down, Bibi. Well, there is no need to ask you why you did what you did. The reason is obvious: you did it because -- why did you do it?"
• (Unnamed) "I had a desire to know what would happen -- if I kissed Mignonette the way Valentino did."
• (Charles Boyer) "You were curious."
• (Unnamed) "Oui, curious."
• (Charles Boyer) "Nothing more."
• (Unnamed) "There is something more, but I don't know what it is."
• (Charles Boyer) "Ah. Well. It is this 'something more' of which we shall speak. Now you see, Bibi, this -- desire you have, it's a natural one, and since it is natural, it cannot be bad. It becomes bad only when the reason is bad. That is why so many people are mixed up"
• (Unnamed) "I, too, am mixed up."
• (Charles Boyer) "Well, of course. So am I. Well, let's try to unmix ourselves, shall we? Now, Bibi, we speak now of love. And where there is love, there is also desire; they go together. Love must have the desire; I don't believe there can be love without it. But, it is possible to have the desire without love, and this is where the world falls apart. For instance, you don't understand why the principal of your school beat you."
• (Unnamed) "No, papa."
• (Charles Boyer) "Well, it is because he has been brought up to believe that the desire is wrong. And since he himself has the desire, he's even more mixed up than we are. He has been brought up in a world where the desire has been used so badly-so badly, believe me-that it itself is thought to be bad; and this is wrong. This is wrong, Bibi. And you know the reason for this condition? It is because so many people are without love."
• (Unnamed) "Many people?"
• (Charles Boyer) "Many."
• (Unnamed) "Uncle Louis?"
• (Charles Boyer) "You love your Uncle Louis, don't you?"
• (Unnamed) "I love him strongly."
• (Charles Boyer) "That's good. He has a great need of love. And without love, one is defeated."
• (Unnamed) "But this love is different. The love I have for Uncle Louis is different from the love I have for you; this also is different from the way I love maman. And then -- Mignonette."
• (Charles Boyer) "Eh, oui, Bibi. And this love we speak of now, when it is real, when it is true, it is the greatest love of all. I know; we have it here, in this house, Maman and I; it is the best, it is the most natural. In this way, the world comes down to a house, and a room, and a bed, and if there are two people in love there, then that is the whole world. Of course, you won't know this for many years. You know it is possible never to know it? I hope you will. If you are as lucky as I am, you will."
• (Unnamed) "I will look for someone like Maman."
• (Charles Boyer) "Oh, no. No, no, no, no. On the contrary: the secret is not to imitate. Look for your heart's need, and then she will come. Well, I've talked enough, and still you don't know what I wish to say."
• (Unnamed) "I think I do."
• (Charles Boyer) "Well, perhaps, when we speak of this again, I will find better words."

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