Princesse de Lamballe Quotes in Marie Antoinette (2006)
Princesse de Lamballe Quotes:
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Princesse de Lamballe: I would have told him exactly what to do with it.
Duchesse de Polignac: Oh? What's that, darling?
Princesse de Lamballe: Put it back in his trousers where it belongs.
Duchesse de Polignac: Lamballe, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a prude.
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Princesse de Lamballe: Can't you do something?
Marie-Antoinette: I'm not going to acknowledge it.
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Marie-Antoinette: [in the gardens] Welcome to my little village!
Princesse de Lamballe: I love it!
Duchesse de Polignac: It's heaven here!
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Duke d'Orléans: Forgive my interruption. I seldom venture to intrude. I know you prefer your solitude.
Marie: It's true. I don't care a great deal for balls and banquets. There's a certain futility to court life, don't you think?
Duke d'Orléans: Hummm...? Oh, quite, quite...
Marie: My husband, as you know, has simple tastes and I am content with my books and music.
Duke d'Orléans: Oh, and here I come blundering into your little oasis.
[He gets up to leave]
Duke d'Orléans: Well, the least I can do is to take myself away quickly.
Princesse de Lamballe: Oh, no! No, no, no!
Marie: Please don't go! Do sit down.
Duke d'Orléans: [He sits down again] Too kind.
Marie: You know perfectly well how things are! No one ever comes to see me. Except my husband, of course.
Duke d'Orléans: Oh, of course.
Marie: No one dares. Why does she hate me so?
Duke d'Orléans: Why? Perfectly simple. Because in motion you are grace itself and in repose a statue of beauty. You know, my little cousin, you should become alive... how quickly you would depose that milliner.
Marie: Rebel?
Duke d'Orléans: Rebel...
Princesse de Lamballe: [Utterly shocked by his suggestion] Oh, my!
Duke d'Orléans: Don't you dare?
Marie: No! Du Barry has every advantage! Why, she could make men or degrade them! Who would dare to offend her to be my friend? Who but you?
Duke d'Orléans: Will you permit me to give a ball in the honor of the dauphine of France?
Marie: But cousin...!
Duke d'Orléans: Paris is waiting for you... lights, music, dancing, the opera. A new world is waiting for you! Conquer Paris and you'll conquer Madame Du Barry.
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