The Devils
1971
Jeanne: Satan is ever ready to seduce us with sensual delights.
Grandier: Hold my hand. It's like touching the dead, isn't it?
Barre: Sin can be caught as easily as the plague.
Grandier: (Talking about Jeanne) Anything found in the desert of a frustrated life can bring hope. With hope comes love. With love comes hate. So I possess her. May God help her in her misery and unhappiness.
Grandier: What fresh lunacy is this? A crocodile?
Jeanne: They always spoke of your beauty, and now I see it with my own eyes and it is true. Grandier: Look at this thing that I am and learn the meaning of love.
Trincant: (holding up Grandier's baby as Grandier burns at the stake) Watch, bastard. See how your mother's honor was avenged. Ibert: Lucky little bastard! It's not every day Baby sees Daddy burn to death.
Spectators: Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! (Mignon gives Grandier the kiss of peace) Spectators: Judas! Judas! Judas! Judas!
Baron De Laubardemont: I also have a maxim, father: give me three lines of a man's handwriting and I will hang him.
(to Grandier) Baron De Laubardemont: Hell will hold no surprises for you.
Grandier: Call me vain and proud, the greatest sinner ever to walk God's earth, but Satan's boy I could never be. I haven't the humility.
Jeanne: Oh, Christ, let me find a way to you. Take me in your sacred arms. Let the blood flow between us uniting us. (moans) Grandier. Grandier!
Baron De Laubardemont: A nun is reported to be having commerce with your Isacaaron in the form of a three-legged dog.
Cardinal Richelieu: A most original conception, your Majesty, The Birth of Venus. I pray I may assist you in the birth of a new France, where Church and State are one. (He holds out his hand to Louis, who kisses his ring) Cardinal Richelieu: (intoning) And may the Protestant be driven from our land...