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Share this quote on facebook Your terrible secret revealed, you're a man after all.

Share this quote on facebook You're not the Antichrist. You're only a malcontent who knows how to spell.

Share this quote on facebook I am not the first man God had asked to shed blood in his name. And I am not the last.

Share this quote on facebook Listen to me Abbé, and listen well. I've stared into the face of evil and I've lived to tell the tale and now, I beg you, for your sake, let me write it down.

Share this quote on facebook Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Share this quote on facebook Are your convictions so fragile they cannot stand in opposition to mine? Is your god so flimsy, so weak? For shame!

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

Share this quote on facebook I didn't create this world of ours. I merely recorded it.

Share this quote on facebook You've already stolen my heart... as well as a more prominent organ, south of the Equator.

Share this quote on facebook Ah, you've come to read my trousers.

Share this quote on facebook 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.

Share this quote on facebook 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.

Share this quote on facebook In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.

Share this quote on facebook My glorious prose filtered through the minds of the insane. Who knows, they might improve it.

Share this quote on facebook Some things belong on paper, others in life. It's a blessed fool who can't tell the difference.

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

Share this quote on facebook Don't come any closer, Abbe, God's watching.

Share this quote on facebook You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

Share this quote on facebook You know how I define idealism, Monsieur Delbenet? Youth's final luxury.

Share this quote on facebook 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!

Share this quote on facebook If you're going to martyr yourself, do it for God, not a chambermaid.

Share this quote on facebook Tell him I'm no fool, a prison's still a prison, even with Chinese silks and chandeliers.

Share this quote on facebook I so admire men with an appetite for...books.

Share this quote on facebook Madeleine LeClerc: How can we know who is good - and who is evil?
Abbé du Coulmier: All we can do is guard against our own corruption.

Share this quote on facebook Abbé du Coulmier: There are certain things.... feelings.... we must not voice.
Madeleine LeClerc: Why?
Abbé du Coulmier: They incite us to act on what we should not.... cannot.

Share this quote on facebook 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.

Share this quote on facebook Renee Pelagie: If you cure him, I mean really cure him, harness the beast that rages his soul.

Share this quote on facebook 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.

Share this quote on facebook 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.

Share this quote on facebook 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.

Share this quote on facebook Abbé du Coulmier: But why must you indulge in his pornography?
Madeleine LeClerc: It's a hard day's wages slaving away for madmen, what I've seen in life - it takes a lot to hold my interest.

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

Share this quote on facebook Dr. Royer-Collard: Will you sleep sound tonight?
Abbé du Coulmier: No. Put frankly, I never expect to sleep again.

Share this quote on facebook There are no bad words... only bad deeds.

Share this quote on facebook Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his.