El casado casa quiere (1948)

Malú Gatica: Elena Luna

Quotes 

• Elena Luna : Men are never so rude as when there are people around.

• Elena Luna : What do you think of me now?

  Quico Posada : Instead of Luna, you should be named Tuna, the cactus fruit.

  Elena Luna : Sure, because I'm so sweet. How gallant you are.

  Quico Posada : You've got more thorns than a cactus.

  Elena Luna : Ah, how delicious! To go riding in the country on a sunny day and have a nice lunch by a cactus. Very tasty once you've gotten past the thorns.

• Quico Posada : The Russian princess was merely one of many. I take the precaution of getting divorced before the wedding.

  Elena Luna : That's sensible of you. That way you won't make some woman miserable her whole life. Also, you retreat before you've been conquered.

• Alicia Conejo : Everyone seems to know exactly what love is, except for those who really are in love.

  Elena Luna : Of course. Who knows the sea better? The sailors above or the poor oysters below?

• Elena Luna : You talk of marriage like one who sneezes because there's a draft.

• Elena Luna : If a man were a woman? What would a man do without his fists, guns, cannons, and atomic bomb? Truly brave is the woman who fights without arms.

• Quico Posada : Do you know what I prayed for?

  Elena Luna : What?

  Quico Posada : That I could eat you, thorns and all.

• Elena Luna : Are you my fiancé or not?

  Quico Posada : Fiancé? I'm your slave for life.

  Elena Luna : Then make yourself useful, slave.

• Elena Luna : My darling Alicia, I'm disappointed in you. You're disgracing our fair sex.

  Alicia Conejo : I?

  Elena Luna : Yes, you. By now he should be wrapped around your little finger.

  Alicia Conejo : He was, until his uncle came.

  Elena Luna : That's the problem with weak men. Anyone can manipulate them. But strong-willed men don't listen to anyone. Without any competition, we can make them do whatever we want. You need a man like that.

• Elena Luna : They can marry whomever they choose. But the best we can do is choose the nicest suitor - or the most advantageous - which is rarely the one we really want. Afterwards, we get used to them and their nonsense and soon they're indispensable. It's just like any habit. Like smoking. The first time I tried it, I nearly choked to death. Now I take a drag as easy as you please. Nobody could make me kick the habit.

• Elena Luna : You should realize that women aren't images to be put on a pedestal. We're flesh and blood. We want more than a sheep-eyed gaze and the nonsense you tell us.