How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Gigi.
Quote #1
MADAME ALVAREZ: And when I think of that delightful old gentleman…with all those flour mills…
GIGI: Who?
MADAME ALVAREZ: Nothing.
Mamita is thinking about her daughter's singing career, which isn't exactly going gangbusters, and sighing about an offer her daughter apparently received in the past to be the mistress of a rich old man. Gigi protests that her mother seems happy, but to Mamita, she may be happy but she's still poor.
Quote #2
SALESMAN: Monsieur Lachaille, about the car.
GASTON: Send it over in the morning with the bill.
SALESMAN: Yes, monsieur. Thank you. But which one?
GASTON: My dear fellow, I don't care. Either one.
The salesman has been eagerly describing two different cars to Gaston, who isn't even listening and couldn't care less. Money definitely means something different to him than it does to Madame Alvarez. Gaston was born into his fortune, so it's all he's ever known. Boring.
Quote #3
MADAME ALVAREZ: It's always a pleasure to watch the rich enjoy the pleasures of the poor.
Gaston's wealth hasn't brought him happiness, even though his uncle seems to be as jolly as can be enjoying all the perks of being rich. All Gaston's wealth is nothing but a burden to him because of the expectations society's put on him to be wining and dining all over town every night. It's not so much the pleasures of the poor that he enjoys as the privacy; no one's watching him. He can be himself.