Memorable quotes for
The Three Musketeers (1973)

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Sea Captain: This pass is for one person.
D'Artagnan: I am only one person. He is a servant.

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Treville: [Bonancieux has been arrested] We will hold you in the Bastille until the Cardinal decides what will become of you.
M. Bonancieux: And afterwards?
Treville: [Ruefully shakes his head] In the Bastille there is no afterwards.
Planchet: Who is the man who accuses you?
M. Bonancieux: [Pointing at Rochefort] Him! That is the man!
Rochefort: Take him away.
M. Bonancieux: That's not the man! It was another man entirely!
Treville: [to Bonancieux] Come along, then.

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D'Artagnan: Well, if I am to die on my first day in Paris; at least it will be at the hands of a Musketeer.

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[the Musketeers have unwittingly rescued the Duke of Buckingham from Richilieu's men]
Duke of Buckingham: Thank you for your assistance, gentlemen.
[exits]
Porthos: Who was that fellow we saved?
Athos: I don't know; but he sounded a bit foreign, did he not?

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[D'Artagnan is trying to seduce Constance]
Constance: I must go to bed now.
D'Artagnan: Bed? That's the best place for you, bed.

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Rochefort: [commenting on D'Artagnan's horse] Decidedly it is someone riding a buttercup. Unless it is a cheese with legs.

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Aramis: Discretion is the better part of vanity.
Porthos: I don't understand. I know the one about valor, though I don't agree. I can't be discreet about how valiant I am, shouldn't be asked.

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Athos: You will find, young man, that the future looks rosiest through the bottom of a glass.

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Rochefort: If you were a gentleman, I would speak to you. I was speaking *at* you, sir.

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Treville: Your father says that you carry his old sword, M. D'Artagnan.
D'Artagnan: Yes.
Treville: [Clears his throat and extends his hand. D'Artagnan produces the sword, which has been broken off quite short] Oh. Do me the honor of taking one on loan until yours grows longer.
D'Artagnan: Sir, I ask charity of no one.
Treville: Then you aren't likely to get it, are you, young man?
[Softens tone]
Treville: No, not charity. Love and courtesy for the son of an old friend, to keep his enemies an inch or two further off.

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Athos: I fight just as well with my left hand. If you find that this places you at a disadvantage, I do apologize.

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Porthos: [to Athos, who is about to duel D'Artagnan] Are you fighting this, er, fellow? But I'm meeting him meself.
D'Artagnan: But not till one o'clock, sir.
Aramis: Oh, no no no. I'm to fight him this afternoon.
D'Artagnan: At two o'clock, sir.
Athos: How long have you been in Paris?
D'Artagnan: Since eight o'clock this morning.
Athos: You waste little time, sir.
D'Artagnan: My father recommended that I fight duels.
Athos: [Laughs] Well! Let us hope you can do him some credit, hm?

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Captain of Cardinal's Guard: We have a duty to suppress disorder and arrest brawlers. Put up your swords and come along with us.
Athos: Impossible.
Porthos: Unthinkable.
Aramis: Unlikely.

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Rochefort: I failed. One does occasionally.
Cardinal Richelieu: If I blundered as you do, my head would fall.
Rochefort: I would say from a greater height than mine, Eminence.
Cardinal Richelieu: You would?
Rochefort: The height of vaulting ambition.
Cardinal Richelieu: You have none?
Rochefort: No.
Cardinal Richelieu: Do you fear me, Rochefort?
Rochefort: Yes, I fear you, Eminence. I also hate you.
Cardinal Richelieu: I love you, my son. Even when you fail.

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M. Bonancieux: The Bastille! Well, I tell you, I don't want to go to the Bastille! Because it's got very deep dungeons and terrible instruments of torture operated by very unsympathetic men! And they snip very important parts off people!

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D'Artagnan: Now, that man in his time has insulted me, broken my father's sword, had me clubbed to the ground, laid violent hands on the woman I love! He is inconvenient.

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Duke of Buckingham: How can I ever repay you?
D'Artagnan: My Lord, let us understand one another. You are an Englishman and an enemy of France. You owe me no debt. What I have done, I've done for the Queen.

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D'Artagnan: Your Grace's pardon, I had forgotten: England is an island. How do I get off?

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Lady de Winter: Your Eminence is a great player - great enough to lose. I do not like to lose.
Cardinal Richelieu: You must suit yourself, Milady. But if in the end you should, do it with a becoming grace.

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Duke of Buckingham: Come, sirs, we must bustle!
[he strides off with the two exhausted Frenchmen trailing behind him]
D'Artagnan: Come Planchet, we must... bustle.
Planchet: [bitterly] Oh good. I like bustling.

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