Quills quotes
60 total quotesMadeleine LeClerc
Major cast
Marquis de Sade
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Prouix, the Architect: Madame, how could you- have you actually read this volume?
Simone: I've memorized it. Would you like me to recite?
Prouix, the Architect: There comes a time in a young lady's life when she has to cast books aside, and learn from experience.
Simone: That, Monsieur, requires a teacher.
Simone: I've memorized it. Would you like me to recite?
Prouix, the Architect: There comes a time in a young lady's life when she has to cast books aside, and learn from experience.
Simone: That, Monsieur, requires a teacher.
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Renee Pelagie: Can I impart to you his cruelest trick?
Dr. Royer-Collard: Of course.
Renee Pelagie: Once, long ago in the folly of youth, he made me love him.
Dr. Royer-Collard: Of course.
Renee Pelagie: Once, long ago in the folly of youth, he made me love him.
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Renee Pelagie: Desperation has driven me past etiquette, all the way to frenzy.
Dr. Royer-Collard: My schedule is not the subject to the whims of lunatics.
Renee Pelagie: I beg to differ, you work in a madhouse. Your every walking moment is governed by the insane.
Dr. Royer-Collard: My schedule is not the subject to the whims of lunatics.
Renee Pelagie: I beg to differ, you work in a madhouse. Your every walking moment is governed by the insane.
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Renee Pelagie: If you cure him, I mean really cure him, harness the beast that rages his soul.
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Simone: Sign it quickly, then you can ravish me again in the linens for which he so dearly paid.
Prouix, the Architect: And then I beg you on the bearskin rug in his study. And finally, as a crowning gesture, we'll leave puddles of love on the Peruvian marble.
Prouix, the Architect: And then I beg you on the bearskin rug in his study. And finally, as a crowning gesture, we'll leave puddles of love on the Peruvian marble.
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Simone: Tell him I'm no fool, a prison's still a prison, even with Chinese silks and chandeliers.
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Simone: Tell him that if he discovers his whereabouts, you'll slit your wrists with a razor, and I'll drive a hatpin through his heart.
Prouix, the Architect: You'd do that, rather than forsake our love.
Simone: No. But tell him I would anyway.
Prouix, the Architect: You'd do that, rather than forsake our love.
Simone: No. But tell him I would anyway.
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Ah, you've come to read my trousers.
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Ameila Warner - Simone
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And nor should you. That's the first rule of politics, isn't it? The one who orders the execution never drops the blade!
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Are your convictions so fragile they cannot stand in opposition to mine? Is your god so flimsy, so weak? For shame!
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Billie Whitelaw - Madame LeClerc
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Don't come any closer, Abbe, God's watching.
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Geoffrey Rush - Marquis de Sade