- Athos: To die among friends. Can a man ask more? Can the world offer less? Who wants to live 'till the last bottle is empty? It's all-for one, d'Artagnan, and one for all.
- Jussac: [while dueling] Why don't you use your right hand, Athos?
- Athos: I save my right hand for my drinking.
- Richelieu: It takes a good man to prevent a catastrophe, milady, and a great man to make use of one. You and I, my dear, are rare new creatures in this ancient world of impulsive men. We have intellect. We think. And when we think, our impulsive enemies are helpless.
- Constance: Oh monsieur! Monsieur, you come from the heavens.
- D'Artagnan: No mademoiselle, just from upstairs.
- Lady de Winter: Your Grace, how can you trust me with such a confidence? What if I refuse to go to England?
- Richelieu: Can there be anyone more trustworthy Milady, than an ambitious woman of fashion? With a history? You said yourself Milady, I know everything that transpires or has transpired - in France.
- The Duke of Buckingham: [about the Lady de Winter] She has promised to kill you; she'll keep that promise if she can. Beware D'Artagnan... beware of strange men in dark places and lonely roads. That woman will destroy you because she must. You know her secret: the brand of a common criminal, the fleur-de-lis.
- D'Artagnan: All I know is what I have done. I'm unspeakable.
- The Duke of Buckingham: No, you're young. You could be so much worse off - she could be your wife.
- D'Artagnan: I come from the end of the earth to implore you.
- Constance: I thought you said you came from upstairs.
- Constance: Whatever my reputation or my D'Artagnan's, I don't take love lightly.
- Athos: [to D'Artagnan] My friend, my friend. My young country friend, when will you learn about Paris? By now Richelieu, without the slightest question, knows even the color of your underpants.
- Athos: This was my family's chapel, Charlotte. You'll remember we took our vows here. I loved you, Charlotte. I still love you. I love you as I love war and drunkeness. I love you as men love all that is worst for them.
- D'Artagnan: Well, Athos, in a matter of hours we'll be on the road to Spain with a price on our heads. Will we live to see France again?
- Athos: Will we live to see Spain?
- Lady de Winter: I want the head of Monsieur D'Artagnan delivered to me, preserved in a small box.
- Richelieu: Oh no, milady, that is - I haven't yet given up hope for him.
- Lady de Winter: Well, you may give up hope for him now.
- Athos: [preparing to duel D'Artagnan with an injured right arm] You'll find the left hand most confusing.
- D'Artagnan: [Reading note to Richelieu] "On my order and for the good of the State, the bearer has done what has been done."
- Treville: What am I going to do with you? As a king's musketeer, Aramis, you'd make a fine priest. And you, Porthos, a fine structure to hang pretty clothes on. Where's Athos?
- Treville: D'Artagnan, a man is sometimes known by the enemies he makes.
- D'Artagnan: I shall endure nothing, sir, from any man!
- D'Artagnan: Sir, I await your pleasure.
- [immediately flogged]
- D'Artagnan: I only arrived in Paris last night.
- Athos: What a pity. To arrive in Paris on one day, and be killed on the next.
- Aramis: [referring to D'Artagnan] A wardrobe, a valet, a horse.
- Porthos: All he needs now is a rich widow.
- D'Artagnan: I love you. Love you! Oh mademoiselle, inside me is a raging storm. From the first instant I beheld you, I - By the way, what's your name?
- Constance: Constance.
- D'Artagnan: Constance. Oh, Constance. My own. My all. My blood rages like a torrent. My heart beats like a drum.
- Constance: Don't stop. Lace me up the back while you're talking.
- D'Artagnan: I'm your servant, your subject, your slave. Your pleasure is my life. Your will, my law. My life is yours. My heart, my sword. Anything you demand. My last drop of blood. Why do I have to start out on laces?
- D'Artagnan: Gentlemen! Gentlemen, your quarrels are with me, not with each other.
- Athos: To talk so well and to die so young. I really do regret this.
- Queen Anne: Spies are everywhere; in my court, in my bedchamber. I have no one to trust.
- Queen Anne: Oh, heaven help me. Why can't you understand?
- The Duke of Buckingham: I understand nothing except that I love you. That the earth is small and there's no room on it for you and me apart.
- D'Artagnan: Porthos, when did a wound ever come between you and a fight?
- Porthos: Well, unfortunately the position of this one comes between me and my horse. I give you my word, I wasn't running away. I was fighting magnificently when, who should appear, but, oh, what a beautiful woman! I let my eyes stray for just a moment when - zing! I'm disgraced. When was I ever wounded in a locality so impossible to explain?
- Athos: You pompous, village bore. You hero. What do you know of anything besides swordplay?
- D'Artagnan: You may hang me if you desire, but call upon you to witness that I surrender freely. Voluntarily of my own choice. Because I cannot stomach the kind of justice that takes the woman and lets the man go free.
- Richelieu: Young man, I can't afford to have you as my enemy. It's true. You bring the affairs of state to a complete halt. But hang you? What a waste. No, a man like you, d'Artagnan, brings out but one thing in me: my inquisitive instinct.
- Athos: I was speaking of women. Now, this friend - this aristocratic friend, fell in love with a country wench. He married her and took her to his ancestral bed. She was beautiful. He worshipped her. As in an ancient order. The pure, the good. His angel of light. But, within a week's time his angel of light had led a neighbor, a young recluse, from a life of chastity, and together they eluded the local church. My friend wrung a confession from the woman and turned her over to the executioner of Lille who branded her shoulder with a fleur-de-lis. Then he cast her out of his house, renounced his ancestral claims, and fled. He changed his name and joined the legions of the king. He never saw the woman again. Nor ever cease to love her. I am speaking of women.
- Queen Anne: [to the King] I'm heartbroken, Louis. I had no time to display the jewels properly. My dressmaker arrived too late.
- Richelieu: Your dressmaker, Madame d'Artagnan, no doubt.
- Porthos: He makes love to one woman in order to make love to another woman.
- Richelieu: You're an ambitious man or you wouldn't have come to Paris. May I suggest that in your allegience to the throne, you've joined your ambitions with a falling star.
- Athos: The woman most notorious woman in France. The woman that not even Buckingham could resist. The most dangerous, fascinating, appetizing, tantalizing. And all he wants is her - confidence.
- D'Artagnan: She hasn't the slightest appeal for me. If only I had some slight appeal for her.
- D'Artagnan: I've made so little progress, I've been reduced to her maid.
- Porthos: Don't tell me you're making love to her maid.
- Aramis: Delicious! Delicious!
- Athos: Look, shun this woman like you would the pox. She's evil itself. She's death. She's poison!
- Athos: You wake me up? It isn't even noon yet. This is no hour for - composing letters or looking happy. Will you stop looking happy?
- Athos: D'Artagnan, how can you get mixed up with so many different women, and still be in love with somebody else?
- D'Artagnan: Oh, you drunken fool! Because you hate all women, must I?
- D'Artagnan: Oh, Milady, whom are you afraid of? What do I live for, except your command?
- Lady de Winter: What would you do to a man, who holds my life in bondage? Who persecutes me? Reviles me? Soils my honor and boasts of it.
- Lady de Winter: Wait. Monsieur d'Artagnan, the famous swordsman. Kitty, prepare me.
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