Maria Cosway Quotes in Jefferson in Paris (1995)

Maria Cosway: That's how it is here. People play at love. It's not serious. It is different in Italy. There, we kill for it!

Thomas Jefferson: I kept having a debate between my head and my heart.

Maria Cosway: Which in your case, the head always wins.

Thomas Jefferson: Not this time. My poor head was simply whirled around by my unruly heart.

Maria Cosway: Oh-dear-God.

Thomas Jefferson: It kept telling me I love the lady and will continue to love her forever. If she were on one side of the globe and I on the other, I would pierce through the whole mass of the world to reach her.