Chocolat Quotes

Roux I should probably warn ya: you make friends with us, you make enemies with everyone else.

Vianne Is that a promise?

Roux It's a guarantee.

Reynaud People could have died. Do you want their blood on your hands? On my hands?

Serge Should I go to Père Henri and ask for forgiveness?

Reynaud Listen to me Serge. Listen very carefully. You must leave this village at once and never return.

Serge Why would I leave my home and my café?

Reynaud Because I'm evicting you, that's why! What you have done puts you beyond anyone's help! Beyond my help, anybody's help! Now get out! Unless you will tell the police what you have done, get out! GET OUT GET OUT!

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Luc Happy birthday, Grandmama.

Armande The invitation said five o'clock.

Luc I should have read it more closely.

Armande If you had you would know there were supposed to be no gifts.

Luc Don't worry so much about supposed to.

Luc Each time I tell myself it's the last time, but then I get a whiff of her hot chocolate, or...

Madame Audel ...Seashells. Chocolate seashells, so small, so plain, so innocent. I thought, oh, just one little taste, it can't do any harm. But it turned out they were filled with rich, sinful...

Yvette ...And it melts, God forgive me, it melts ever so slowly on your tongue, and tortures you with pleasure.

Storyteller Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside, whose people believed in Tranquilité - Tranquility. If you lived in this village, you understood what was expected of you. You knew your place in the scheme of things. And if you happened to forget, someone would help remind you. In this village, if you saw something you weren't supposed to see, you learned to look the other way. If perchance your hopes had been disappointed, you learned never to ask for more. So through good times and bad, famine and feast, the villagers held fast to their traditions. Until, one winter day, a sly wind blew in from the North...

Storyteller But still the clever north wind was not satisfied. It spoke to Vianne of towns yet to be visited, friends in need yet to be discovered, battles yet to be fought... By someone else, next time.

Comte de Reynaud Let me try to put this into perspective for you. The first Comte de Reynaud expelled all the radical Huguenots in this village. You and your truffles present a far lesser challenge.

Père Henri I'm not sure what the theme of my homily today ought to be. Do I want to speak of the miracle of Our Lord's divine transformation? Not really, no. I don't want to talk about His divinity. I'd rather talk about His humanity. I mean, you know, how He lived His life, here on Earth. His kindness, His tolerance... Listen, here's what I think. I think that we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think... we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.

Vianne Things could be different for you, Josephine. Serge doesn't run the world.

Josephine He might as well.

Vianne Is that what you believe?

Josephine I know it.

Vianne Oh. Well, then it must be... must be true. My mistake.

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Josephine Muscat You don't misbehave here. It's just not done, did you know that? If you don't go to confession, if you don't... dig your flowerbeds, or if you don't pretend, if you don't pretend... that you want nothing more in your life than to serve your husband three meals a day, and give him children, and vacuum under his ass, then... then you're... then you're crazy.

Josephine Muscat Who says I can't use a skillet?

Reynaud Rumor has it you are harbouring Madame Muscat. Is that true?

Vianne You make her sound like a fugitive.

Reynaud She is a fugitive. From her marriage vows, which have been sanctified by God.

Vianne Joséphine? Come out here a minute. Let His Radiance have a look at you, hm? Is that sanctified enough for you? It's not the first time.

Reynaud I am truly sorry. You should have come to me. Your husband will be made to repent for this.

Josephine Tell him to repent on someone else's head.

Vianne And these are for your husband. Unrefined cacao nips from Guatemala, to awaken the passions.

Yvette Psshh. You've obviously never met my husband.

Vianne Well, you've obviously never tried these.

Serge We are still married, in the eyes of God.

Josephine Then He must be blind.

Vianne Rocher Ah, good morning. Can I interest you in some nipples of Venus?

Père Henri Satan wears many guises. At times, he is the singer of a lurid song you hear on the radio. At times, the author of a salacious novel. The quiet man in the schoolyard, asking your children if he might join their game...and at times, the maker of sweet things, mere trifles, for what could seem more harmless, more innocent, than chocolate?

Vianne I have two announcements. Number one, if you enjoyed what you ate here, you're going to love my chocolate festival on Sunday.

Armande Advertise on your own time. What's for dessert?

Vianne That brings me to number two. It is my duty to announce, that there is no dessert here tonight. Because it's on Roux's boat.

Armande Any complaints, see me.

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