The Marquis de Sade Quotes in Quills (2000)

The Marquis de Sade: I have a proposition.

Coulmier: You always do.

The Marquis de Sade: Madeleine. She's besotted with me. She'd do anything I asked. She could pay you a visit.

Coulmier: I don't know who you insult more, her or me.

The Marquis de Sade: Part the gates of heaven, as it were.

Coulmier: That's enough!

The Marquis de Sade: You're too tense, darling. You could do with a long, slow screw.

Coulmier: Good night, Marquis.

[walks out the room]

The Marquis de Sade: [shouts] Then bugger me! Goddamn you, Abbe! Have you no true sense of my condition? Of its gravity? My writing is involuntary, like the beating of my heart. My constant erection!

The Marquis de Sade: My glorious prose filtered through the minds of the insane. Who knows, they might improve it.