Quotes

Athos: The next time we meet, one of us will die!

Athos: No, wait. With a king it is so.

[meaning the way Philippe is holding the goblet]

Athos: [he shows him, pinching the goblet between thumb and forefinger]

Athos: Servants have touched the goblet of the King, therefor he will touch it as little as possible. Again.

[Phillippe tries it and the goblet slips from his fingers, crashing onto his plate and spilling onto everything]

Phillippe: I am sorry!

Athos: No. No! Do not be sorry! There are no mistakes when you are the King! You must never apologize. The King cares for nothing and for no one.

Phillippe: Is that the kind of king you wish me to be? Or do you say this to me because your son is dead?

[Athos is silent, he shoves back from the table and turns away]

Phillippe: Forgive me, I would never mean to disrespect...

Athos: I am not... I am not angry with you. Do you understand? Good. Of course we wish you to be a good king. But first you must pass as Louis, and Louis is cold and cruel. The eyes of this King say that he cares for nothing at all but himself. You eyes ask too much. You shouldn't care about... about me... you shouldn't care...

[his voice breaks]

Athos: You mustn't ask about my son...

[he leaves the room, weeping]

Aramis: Perhaps you should take his offer. We're dead anyway.

Porthos: He's right, D'Artagnan.

Phillippe: Wait. Bargain me to Louis for all your lives. You've done your best. Please let me go.

D'Artagnan: No, I cannot do it. Even if I could give up my king, I could never give up my son.

[they all look at him, thunderstruck]

Phillippe: Your son?

D'Artagnan: I loved your mother. I love her still. You are my son. I never knew you existed. And I never felt pride as a father... until this moment.

Aramis: The King has ordered me to seek out the secret general of the Jesuits and kill him.

Porthos: You should let the secret general worry about that.

Aramis: Therein is the problem. I am he. I am the general of the order of Jesuits.

Aramis: If Porthos is determined to end his life, he's bound to seek the opportunity, isn't he?

King Louis XIV: It is good that you watch me, D'Artagnan, but I fear you watch me too closely.

D'Artagnan: No. If anyone sees... it is death.

Queen Anne: If I don't kiss you, I'll die anyway.

Phillippe: Put this man away where no one will hear his insanity. Let him be fed by a deaf-mute but feed him well.

Aramis: Why are you so glum?

Porthos: I expected action. There was no fighting, there was no killing. I was useless.

Aramis: Porthos, I grow tired of this attitude. You're surrounded by beauty, by intrigue, by danger. What more can a man want? The robins are singing, the pigeons are cooing. Can't you listen to their song?

[he walks off in disgust; Porthos takes off his hat when something falls on it to reveal it's bird-dung]

Athos: You came to restrain me?

D'Artagnan: I came to give you hope.

Lt. Andre: Musketeers, SALUTE

[they raise flags and draw swords into an arch]

Musketiers: ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL

Queen Anne: Aramis!

Aramis: I have come to ask whether you believe that just as one lie can destroy a life, so one truth can make it whole again.

Queen Anne: I have prayed every day for such a miracle.

Athos: It has everything to do with it. The king is a dog. A dog and a coward.

Athos: You're the traitor.

Louis: Of all the wonders I have seen, I've never looked upon anything as beautiful as you.

[Porthos brings three wenches to Aramis' apartment, but they find him at prayer]

Porthos: Sorry, my dears. You would have enjoyed it too. He's hung like a donkey.

Wench: So are you.

Porthos: Really? He's been asleep for so long, I've forgotten about him.

Aramis: I have prayed every day for forgiveness. But now I realize that forgiveness must come from you before it can come from God.

Porthos: I love Paris, I love life, and I love you.

Louis: D'Artagnan, you will hunt down Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, and bring me their heads, or I will have yours. And as for you, my brother, back to the prison you will go, and into the mask you hate. Wear it 'til you love it! And die in it.

D'Artagnan: Anne, to love you is treason against France. But not to love you is treason against my heart.

Aramis: We are offering you the chance to be King.

Phillippe: No, you are offering me the chance to pretend to be King.

D'Artagnan: Your people are most anxious to love you, but they are eating rotten food and sometimes none at all.

King Louis XIV: There is more of me to love than a crown.

D'Artagnan: Anne, I know that to love you is a treason against France, but not to love you is a treason against my heart.

Queen Anne: Then we will both die traitors, D'Artagnan.

Phillippe: I wear the mask. It does not wear me.

King Louis XIV: Never underestimate the Dutch!

Athos: D'Artagnan, I have never known a finer man than you nor cared more for a friend, but if this king harms my son merely to take a lover, then this king will become my enemy. And so will any man who stands between that enemy and me.

Athos: You want me to do the impossible and you want me to do it alone?

Queen Anne: Bless me Father, for I have sinned.

Aramis: So have I.

Porthos: [he puts the rope around his neck and prepares to jump] Farewell cruel world... farewell to useless Porthos.

[jumps]

Athos: [Aramis and Athos are watching the building from the outside] What was that?

Aramis: It's all right; I sawed the beam.

[the building promptly collapses, and Athos stares at Aramis in disbelief]

Aramis: Well, I'm a genius, not an engineer!

Louis: Cowards! Twenty men run from four?

Lt. Andre: The corridor nullifies our numbers, and nobody has the stomach to fight the captain!

Porthos: [a naked Porthos has tried to hang himself but failed] Aramis! You sawed the beam! You knew I would I try to hang myself and you sawed the beam! Admit it. Admit it!

Aramis: Of course I knew! And now that you've got the idea of killing yourself out of your head you can stop boring everyone and be useful for a change. And put some clothes on!

King Louis XIV: I hear there was an incident at the Musketeers' gate, where a man came intent on killing me. Is it our policy now to let would-be assassins go free, d'Artagnan?

D'Artagnan: He wished to kill his own pain. His son is dead. I can think of nothing worse.

King Louis XIV: What about losing your king?

D'Artagnan: That depends on the king.

Athos: Is that just because you are holier than everybody else?

Aramis: Well, there is that, but also because I'm more intelegent than everybody else.

Phillippe: [to Athos after D'Artagnan's funeral ends] Athos... after all you have done, I must ask you one more service. Let me love you like a son to a father. And I pray you live for this: to love me like your son.

[Athos kisses Phillipe's breast and walks away]

King Louis XIV: Why has my own brother tried to do this to me?

D'Artagnan: And look what you have done to him!