Quills quotes

60 total quotes

Madeleine LeClerc
Major cast
Marquis de Sade

View Quote Marquis de Sade: It's only a play.

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

View Quote Geoffrey Rush - Marquis de Sade

View Quote Marquis de Sade: Prepare yourself for the most impure tale ever to spring from the mind of man.

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 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 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.

View Quote Dr. Royer-Collard: You prefer a book to your husband's company? Well no wonder, I'm only flesh and blood - that's no match for the printed page!

View Quote Ah, you've come to read my trousers.

View Quote Billie Whitelaw - Madame LeClerc

View Quote Renee Pelagie: If you cure him, I mean really cure him, harness the beast that rages his soul.

View Quote Ameila Warner - Simone

View Quote Simone: Tell him I'm no fool, a prison's still a prison, even with Chinese silks and chandeliers.

View Quote Kate Winslet - Madeleine LeClerc

View Quote Michael Caine - Dr. Royer-Collard