"I consider jealousy to be insulting to you and degrading to me. I have no right to inquire into your feelings. They concern only your conscience. But it's my duty to remind you we are bound together by God, and this bond can only be broken by a crime against God."

"All I know is that I sent him away, and it's as if I'd shot myself through the heart."

"I was eighteen when I got married, but it was not love."

"I will not have a scandal. Therefore... You will not see... this man again. You will behave in such a way that nothing is known against you, by society or by the servants. In return, you will keep the privileges of a wife — and the duties."

"I am not ashamed of who I am or what I've done. Are you ashamed for me?"

"Connie Nielsen – Katherine (Joe's mother)"

"Michaël Pas – Older Jerôme"

"Jean-Marc Barr – the Debtor Gentleman"

"Sophie Kennedy Clark – B"

"It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself."

"Willem Dafoe – L"

"Lars von Trier ends up hitting the G-spot of avant-garde filmmaking with a movie only he could ever make, and gives the open-minded members of the audience one of the most powerful and sensational experiences ever seen in arts."

"Mia Goth – P"

"Udo Kier – The Waiter"

"Stellan Skarsgård – Seligman"

"[when she and Count Vronsky having sex] Oh, God! Oh, forgive me! It's the end of everything. I've got nothing left except you, remember that."

"Shia LaBeouf – Jerôme Morris"

"Christian Slater – Joe's father"

"Charlotte Gainsbourg – Joe (ages 35–50)"

"The secret ingredient to sex is love."

"That's not how this goes. Most people don't scream until I hit them."

"Jamie Bell – K"

"Mea Vulva, Mea Maxima Vulva!"

"Aaron Taylor-Johnson — Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky"

"[to Young Joe] Would it be alright if I show the children the whoring bed? After all, they also have a stake in this event."

"[to her children, referring to Joe's bedroom] Let's go see daddy's favorite place! C'mon boys! Ooh, so this is were it all happened!"

"Uma Thurman – Mrs. H"

"Ruth Wilson — Princess Elizaveta "Betsy" Tverskaya"

"Well, if three is a crowd, then seven must be a bit of a challenge for the pretty miss. I must say I have a hard time picturing her enjoying loneliness."

"But you... you've fucked thousands of men."

"I thank God that the curse of love is lifted from me."

"Holliday Grainger — The Baroness"

"Whatever? It must be hard, when you've got everything, to know what to say!"

"They said that love was the secret ingredient in sex, but, to me, love was just lust, with jealousy added."

"Basically, we're all waiting for permission to die."

"We elevate those who say right but mean wrong, and mock those who say wrong but mean right."

"For me, love was just lust with jealousy added; everything else was total nonsense. For every hundred crimes committed in the name of love, only one is committed in the name of sex."

"Each time a word becomes prohibited, you remove a stone from the Democratic foundation. Society demonstrates its impotence in the face of a concrete problem by removing words from the language. And I say that society is as cowardly as the people in it, who in my opinion are also too stupid for democracy."

"Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I've always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin."

"It's actually the souls of the trees we're seeing in the winter. In summer everything is green and idyllic but in the winter, the branches and the trunks all stand out. Just look at how crooked they all are. The branches have to carry all the leaves to the sunlight. That's one long struggle for survival."

"The human qualities can be expressed in one word: Hypocrisy. We elevate those who say "right" but mean "wrong" and mock those who say "wrong" but mean "right." By the way, I can assure you that women who claim that negros don't turn them on, they're lying."

"It's said to be difficult to take someone's life. I would've said that it's more difficult not to. For a human being, killing is the most natural thing in the world. We're created for it."

"[narrating] During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. ("The House of the Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe)"

"Alicia Vikander — Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya"