Quills (2000)

Michael Caine: Royer-Collard

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• Renee Pelagie : Desperation has driven me past etiquette, all the way to frenzy.

  Dr. Royer-Collard : My schedule is not subject to the whim of lunatics.

  Renee Pelagie : I beg to differ, you work in a madhouse. Your every waking moment is governed by the insane.

• Dr. Royer-Collard : We produce books for the discriminating collector. The compulsive inmates set the type, the listless ones do the binding and prepare the ink.

• Dr. Royer-Collard : I won't sully my hands with him.

  Marquis de Sade : Nor should you. That's the first rule of politics, isn't it? The man who orders the execution never drops the blade.

• Royer-Collard : If you're going to martyr yourself Abbe, do it for God, not the chambermaid.

• Renee Pelagie : Can I impart to you his cruellest trick.

  Dr. Royer-Collard : Of course.

  Renee Pelagie : Once, long ago in the folly of youth, he made me love him.

• 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!

• Dr. Royer-Collard : Some men are beyond redemption.

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

• Royer-Collard : Take this beast back to his cage!

• Royer-Collard : Will you sleep soundly tonight?

  Coulmier : No. Put frankly, I never expect to sleep again.

• [Royer-Collard taking the new Abbe for a tour around, and introduces him his predecessor] 

  Royer-Collard : Prone to violence and perversions.