Buddenbrooks

Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook:
My father says, that's how the Hagenstr?ms do it all the time.

Hermann Hagenstr?m:
How do we do it?

Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook:
With the elbows.

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Thomas Buddenbrook:
The company demands it.

Bendix Gr?nlich:
I'm disrupting, I'm stepping into a family circle, one is chatting, I have to ask forgiveness.

Elisabeth 'Betsy' Buddenbrook:
We would be delighted if you resided in our house for the duration of your stay.

Bendix Gr?nlich:
Frau Konsulin, thank you very much, I'm occupying several rooms at the Gasthaus Stadt Hamburg.

Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook:
The man arrives, says something pleasant to everybody, leaves. And now he writes in this letter that he formed a strong attachment to me.

Johann 'Jean' Buddenbrook:
You are a Buddenbrook. We are not born to live for what we might take to be happiness with our short-sighted eyes. We are links in a chain. You, too, are unthinkable without those who have come before us.

Van Kellen:
Coffee, spices, rubber, paraffin, timber, indigo - Here you will have insight into an overseas world trade.

Thomas Buddenbrook:
At home in L?beck, they're still arguing about joining costums union.

Van Kellen:
You'll see. The bigger the market, the better are the chances. Money wants to procreate.

Thomas Buddenbrook:
The way you say that. As if the money was alive.

Gerda Arnoldsen:
At least. A merchant with longing.

Thomas Buddenbrook:
Don't tell on me in L?beck.

Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook:
You are my banker. He says I'm ruining him with my little purchases.

Kesselmayer:
You ruin him? [laughing hard] That's funny.

Johann 'Jean' Buddenbrook:
Sit down in my place. I want you to draw up an advertisment. 'Merchant Jean Buddenbrook, royal dutch consul, is honoured to announce that he will stop signing from this day on. The eldest son, Thomas, will from now on manage the Buddenbrook company.'

Aline Puvogel:
I'm only singing the small parts.

Christian Buddenbrook:
This may all change.

Aline Puvogel:
Why, do you know the manager?

Christian Buddenbrook:
He knows me.

Christian Buddenbrook:
You know, at University, it must be really nice. You go there whenever you feel like it, all voluntarily. You sit down, listen - it's like theatre.

Stephan Kistenmaker:
But the professors don't sing. They lecture.

Thomas Buddenbrook:
You're a deformity. An unhealthy spot on our family's body.

Elisabeth 'Betsy' Buddenbrook:
It happens that brothers hate each other. But one doesn't talk about it.

Elisabeth 'Betsy' Buddenbrook:
You're not creating a scandal, do you hear me?

Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook:
Success will come back.

Thomas Buddenbrook:
Tony, happiness and success are inside us. We have to hold on to them, fast, deep. When it starts to subside...

Thomas Buddenbrook:
You can't run a business from a piano.

Thomas Buddenbrook:
Don't make me a laughingstock.

Gerda Arnoldsen:
It's all up to you.

Christian Buddenbrook:
You know, I have responsibilities. You know, little Gisela...

Thomas Buddenbrook:
I know of no little Gisela, and I don't want to know about her, either.

Thomas Buddenbrook:
I can't think about your illnesses all day. Perhaps I am sicker than you are.

Hanno Buddenbrook:
No, I don't want to be famous. I don't want anything.

Hermann Hagenstr?m:
You were the princess that evening.

Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook:
And you at least brought back the music for me.