Dr. Royer-Collard Quotes in Quills (2000)

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.

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.

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

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

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.