- Mimi: Oh, you're so right. One look is enough.
- Monsieur Beaucaire: That regal forehead runs in the family.
- Mimi: The Hapsburg chin!
- Monsieur Beaucaire: Got that from my mother.
- Mimi: The Bourbon nose!
- Monsieur Beaucaire: Got that from my father, drank like a fish!
- Mimi: Those dark, flashing eyes - that soft lustrous hair!
- Monsieur Beaucaire: You should see it after a rinse!
- King Louis XV: [to le Chandre, referring to his mistress, Madame Pompadour] Should I chance to find her, I'm afraid I shall have your head...
- [to Beaucaire]
- King Louis XV: ... and yours too!
- Monsieur Beaucaire: Naturally! Two heads are better than one!
- Monsieur Beaucaire: [Referring to the guillotine] What a way to die!
- Count D'Armand: Be brave my friend. You wanted to go anyway.
- Monsieur Beaucaire: But like a man, not like a salami!
- Count D'Armand: Go on! Help him!
- Monsieur Beaucaire: Who me?
- Count D'Armand: Yes, you! You're a man. You've got blood in your veins.
- Monsieur Beaucaire: I wanna keep it there. It's the squirty kind.
- King Louis XV: ...you know how I am about weddings.
- The Queen of France: Do you remember? Louis? Our wedding?
- King Louis XV: Hanh?
- The Queen of France: Ours.
- King Louis XV: [Recalling the past fondly] Of course, I do. Forty years ago. Ah, My Dear, you were the most beautiful, the most radiant woman in all France.
- The Queen of France: Oh, Louis!
- King Louis XV: Yes, My Dear, you were. When I look at you today...
- [Changing mood]
- King Louis XV: Forty years is a long time!