- Soldier: [holding back his attack] I'll not fight with a lady.
- Claire: [thrusting her rapier at the soldier] I'm no lady when I fight!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: The year 1648 was a grim one for France. With the death of the great Cardinal Richelieu, the strong hand holding the country together was gone. Terror and violence ruled as the power-hungry nobles plotted to gain control.
- D'Artagnan: You sent for me, Mother?
- Madame D'Artagnan: A messenger has just brought this, my son.
- D'Artagnan: The Queen's ring!
- Madame D'Artagnan: Her Majesty must be in great danger, else she would not have sent that.
- D'Artagnan: Then I must go at once - for my father. Planchet, saddle my horse!
- [D'Artagnan's mother has given her son her husband's famous sword]
- D'Artagnan: My father's sword! Now I have a legend to live up to.
- Madame D'Artagnan: Use it well and wisely.
- D'Artagnan: I will use it as my father would have - with honor and in the Queen's name.
- D'Artagnan: A moment, monsieurs. Why do you follow me?
- Regent Guard: We do not follow you.
- D'Artagnan: Then let me put it this way... why is it that I always seem to be a little ahead of you?
- Second Regent's Guardsman at Fallen Tree: Perhaps it is because we happen to be going your way.
- D'Artagnan: And which way is that, Monsieur?
- Third Regent's Guardsman at Fallen Tree: Bordeaux.
- D'Artagnan: Bordeaux? You lie! The road to Bordeaux is half a league back.
- Regent Guard: Regent's Guards are not accustomed to being called liars!
- D'Artagnan: And the King's Musketeer is not accustomed to being followed... by liars!
- Old Porthos: Ah, it is useless. I had hoped to ride with you, but I cannot. Devil take this gout! And yet, young D'Artagnan and Aramis ride in their fathers' steeds.
- Porthos: Then I shall ride for you!
- Old Porthos: Then one for all!
- D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos: One for all!
- Old Porthos: And all for one!
- D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos: All for one!
- Old Porthos: Ride hard and fast, my lads!
- [D'Artagnan has just rescued the Dauphin from the Duke de LaValle, who was holding the Prince hostage]
- D'Artagnan: And now your Grace, hide behind your sword!
- Duc de Lavalle: [to D'Artagnan] You stood pain well, monsieur. Now we'll see how you can face death.
- Queen Anne: There was a cabal of Nobles once who sought our lives. My four Musketeers saved us. I remember how gay they were that day they fought... Athos, the giant Porthos, Aramis... no woman was safe with him... or wanted to be. D'Artagnan--his sword had no equal in Europe.
- D'Artagnan: So! No sooner is my back turned then I find you in the arms of another.
- Jacques - Regent's Guardsman: Who is he?
- Claire: My husband.
- Jacques - Regent's Guardsman: Husband! Why didn't you tell me you were married?
- Claire: You didn't ask me.
- Aramis: So, no sooner do I turn my back then I find you in the arms of another.
- Jacques - Regent's Guardsman: Who's is that?
- Claire: My sweetheart.
- Porthos: So, no sooner do I turn my back...
- Claire: Then you find me in the arms of another.
- Porthos: Yes!
- Jacques - Regent's Guardsman: Who's that?
- Claire: My Fiancé.
- Jacques - Regent's Guardsman: Husband, Sweetheart, Fiancé. What is all this?
- D'Artagnan: You'll soon find out. Walk to the rear.