Comte de Provence Quotes in Marie Antoinette (1938)

King Louis XVI: I am not going to run! What do you say, brother?

Comte de Provence: I say run and you'll lose your crown!

Comte d'Artois: And I say stay and you'll lose your head!

Comte de Provence: [to Artois] You're on the wing, I suppose?

Comte d'Artois: Your trunks are packed!

Comte de Provence: Liar!

King Louis XVI: Be quiet, be quiet, both of you! It was a grave mistake to dissolve the assembly...

[He looks desparately up to Marie Antoinette]

King Louis XVI: My dear, what shall we do?

Comte d'Artois: [Provence is making a hasty retreat to his carriage when he meets Artois who is making his own hurried exit] Ah, brother! Traveling?

Comte de Provence: If they should be killed I should be king.

Comte d'Artois: If you should be killed I should be king! In these days who knows? Ha, ha! Adieu, brother!