Quills quotes

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Madeleine LeClerc
Major cast
Marquis de Sade

View Quote I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. We're all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... I've been to hell, young man, you've only read about it.

View Quote I didn't create this world of ours. I merely recorded it.

View Quote Marquis de Sade: [voiceover, as Columier writes] Beloved reader, I leave you now with a tale penned by the Abbe du Columier, a man who found freedom, in the most unlikely places: at the bottom of an inkwell, on the tip of a quill. However, be forewarned, its plot is blood-soaked, its characters deprived, and its themes... unwholesome at best. But in order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the full measure of man. So come: I dare you.... Turn the page...

View Quote In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.

View Quote You've already stolen my heart... as well as a more prominent organ, south of the Equator.

View Quote Madeleine LeClerc: Your publisher says I'm not to leave without another manuscript.
Marquis de Sade: I've just the story. It's the unhappy tale... of a virginal laundry lass. The darling of the lower wards where they entomb the criminally insane.
Madeleine LeClerc: Is it awfully violent?
Marquis de Sade: Most assuredly.
Madeleine LeClerc: Is it terribly erotic?
Marquis de Sade: Fiendishly so. But it comes with a price. A kiss for each page.

View Quote Marquis de Sade: If someone would try to walk on water and drowned, would you blame the Bible.

View Quote Are your convictions so fragile they cannot stand in opposition to mine? Is your god so flimsy, so weak? For shame!

View Quote Madeleine LeClerc: How can we know who is good - and who is evil?
Abbe du Coulmier: All we can do is guard against our own corruption.

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 If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.

View Quote 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.

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

View Quote And nor should you. That's the first rule of politics, isn't it? The one who orders the execution never drops the blade!

View Quote Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.