Quills

"Michael Caine - Dr. Royer-Collard"

"Billie Whitelaw - Madame LeClerc"

"Amelia Warner - Simone"

"Listen to me Abbé, and listen well. I've stared into the face of evil and I've lived to tell the tale and now, I beg you, for your sake, let me write it down."

"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated."

"Are your convictions so fragile they cannot stand in opposition to mine? Is your god so flimsy, so weak? For shame!"

"Suppose one of your precious inmates attempted to walk on water and drowned - would you comdemn the Bible? I think not."

"I didn't create this world of ours. I merely recorded it."

"You've already stolen my heart... as well as a more prominent organ, south of the Equator."

"Ah, you've come to read my trousers."

"I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. We're all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... I've been to hell, young man, you've only read about it."

"This monstrous God of yours? He strung up his son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he'd do to me."

"In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man."

"My glorious prose filtered through the minds of the insane. Who knows, they might improve it."

"Some things belong on paper, others in life. It's a blessed fool who can't tell the difference."

"Your terrible secret revealed, you're a man after all."

"Don't come any closer, Abbe, God's watching."

"You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?"

"You know how I define idealism, Monsieur Delbenet? Youth's final luxury."

"You prefer a book to your husband's company? Well no wonder, I'm only flesh and blood - that's no match for the printed page!"

"If you're going to martyr yourself, do it for God, not a chambermaid."

"Tell him I'm no fool, a prison's still a prison, even with Chinese silks and chandeliers."

"I so admire men with an appetite for...books."

"There are no bad words... only bad deeds."

"Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his."

"Geoffrey Rush - Marquis de Sade"

"Kate Winslet - Madeleine LeClerc"

"Joaquin Phoenix - Abbe du Coulmier"

"If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life."

"You're not the Antichrist. You're only a malcontent who knows how to spell."

"I am not the first man God had asked to shed blood in his name. And I am not the last."