Queen Marie Antoinette: Do you ever have this feeling as if you cannot seem to draw quite enough breath?
Camille: Often. I believe it is called a corset.

Destruction is power in the wrong hand. Control is power is the right one.

Camille

Camille: I require your advice.
Jean de Merteuil: Don’t you know everything already?

Perhaps the real crime is that men do not suffer for their own failings, only the failings of their wives.

Madame Berthe

Her name is Camille. She’s a scar upon me.

Jacqueline de Montrachet

Some still do not trust the knowledge in medicine. I hope rationality will eventually banish fear and superstition.

Henri de Montrachet

She kissed my hand, so that you might kiss it, and receive the kiss she has left for you.

Chevalier Saint-Jacques

You’ve been looking in the wrong place for your power. It lies in the secrets of women.

Camille

He is a fine shot.

Christine de Sevigny

I will save you the trouble of pursuing me, Widow Valmont. I knew your late husband, and I assure you, death was a comfort to him.

Jean de Merteuil

These people mean to do you harm. It scares me that you can’t see that.

Victoire

Chevalier Saint-Jacques: I saw the Marquis has a long pistol, that is all.
Ondine de Valmont: That is often enough, Chevalier.
Chevalier Saint-Jacques: I favor technique.
Chevalier Danceny: It amounts to the same thing. The loss of beautiful birds.

Dangerous Liaisons Quotes

Pascal: Didn’t I promise you the brightest future when I took you on here?
Azolan: You did, though it still remains too bright to see with the human eye.

You are my glorious release. Desire has made me fearless, and reckless with my reputation.

Genevieve