Quills quotes

60 total quotes

Madeleine LeClerc
Major cast
Marquis de Sade

View Quote Why should I love God? He strung up his son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he'd do to me.

View Quote Geoffrey Rush - Marquis de Sade

View Quote You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can't you?

View Quote Marquis de Sade: Welcome to our humble madhouse, Doctor. I trust you'll find yourself at home.

View Quote Marquis de Sade: It's an entire religion based on an oxymoron.

View Quote Madeleine LeCleric: It's a sin against God for me to refuse your kindness. But my heart's held fast here-
Adde du Coulmier: By whom? The Marquis?
Madeleine LeCleric: Mother's not half so blind as you.

View Quote Don't come any closer, Abbe, God's watching.

View Quote Ameila Warner - Simone

View Quote Suppose one of your precious inmates attempted to walk on water and drowned - would you comdemn the Bible? I think not.

View Quote Dr. Royer-Collard: You know how I define idealism, Monsieur Delbenet? Youth's final luxury.

View Quote Marquis de Sade: What you need, darling, is a long, slow screw.

View Quote 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.

View Quote 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.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Marquis de Sade: My glorious prose filtered through the minds of the insane. Who knows they might improve it.