The Three Musketeers (1974) - Quotes

Unity in Enjoyment and Adventure

Taglines: One for all and all for fun!

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Unity in Purpose and Action

Taglines: All for one, and one for all!

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A Game of Strategy and Grace

Milady: Your Eminence is a great player -- great enough to lose. I do not like to lose.

Richelieu: You must suit yourself, Milady. But if, at the end, you should -- do it with a becoming grace.

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Determining Value and Time for Creation

Buckingham: [showing the diamond studs] O'Reilly -- put a price on these: each one, their worth.

O'Reilly: Oh, umm...not English. Not English, no. I'd say...ah...five hundred pounds.

Buckingham: How long to make two of them?

O'Reilly: Oh, ah, um, oooh...a week?

Buckingham: I'll pay you five thousand pounds each if they're finished the day after tomorrow!

O'Reilly: Done!

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One Pass for One Person

Sea Captain: But this pass is only for one person.

D'artagnan: [Indicating Planchet] I am only one person. This is a servant!

Sea Captain: I see. All right.

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Life's Purpose in Unquestioned Duty

Porthos: [On riding with D'artagnan to recover the Queen's diamonds] May one ask -- delicately -- the cause in which we're expected to die?

Aramis: When you go on a campaign, does the King give his reasons? He says, "Porthos, fight!" and you fight.

Porthos: Oh, I do, I do!

Aramis: Then let's go and be killed where we're told to! Is life worth so many questions?

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A Beggar's Plea for Compassion and Change

Beggar: [Constance has blundered into him; D'artangan passes by; D'artagnan is gone and Planchet follows] Money for a blind man...mo --oof! Watch where you're goin', darlin'...all right, dear. Money for a cripple...money for a cripple...money for a cripple... Money for a cripple? Money for a cripple??

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A Clash of Authority and Consequences

Richelieu: If I had blundered as you do, my head would fall.

Rochefort: I would say, from a greater height than mine, Your Eminence.

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Accusations and Confusion Among Characters

Richelieu: Do you know your accuser? Who brought you here?

M. Bonacieux: [pointing at Rochefort] That! That is the man!

Richelieu: Take him away!

M. Bonacieux: That is not the man! It was another man altogether!!!

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A Dispute Over a Damaged Bonnet

Porthos: [Rifles the purse of a fallen Guardsman; Reconsiders on seeing the contents of the purse] God's blood!! Look at that! Best Flemish bonnet! Ruined by you and your, your street-corner ruffians! By God, you'll pay for it! Ten pistoles it cost me! : No— twenty! Twenty pistoles! And twenty more, as a fine to teach you manners! Hah! Jussac!

Jussac: Thief!

Porthos: What!

Aramis: There, there! Charity is one of the cardinal virtues!

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Confrontation Between Musketeers and Authority

Jussac: Ah! Musketeers! Dueling in defiance of the Edicts!

Athos: This is a private matter, sir, will you please be on your way?

Jussac: We have a duty to suppress disorder and arrest brawlers: put up your swords and come along with us, eh?

Athos: Impossible!

Porthos: Unthinkable!

Aramis: Unlikely...

Jussac: Then, we must charge you!

Aramis: There are six of them, and we are only three!

D'artagnan: [impulsively] No, four!

Porthos: You're not one of us!

Athos: This is not your affair, boy.

D'artagnan: I may not have the tunic, but I have the heart of a Musketeer!

Jussac: Young man, you may retire -- save your skin, and quickly!

Aramis: What's your name, young man?

D'artagnan: D'artagnan.

Aramis: Very well. Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'artagnan -- Forward!

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Scheduling a Duel Among Friends

Porthos: Are you fighting this, ah, fellow? But I'm fighting him myself!

D'artagnan: But not til one o'clock!

Aramis: Oh, no, no, no, I'm fighting 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.

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Miscommunication in Medical Diagnosis

Doctor: It's a very clean sword-thrust. A souvenir of the Cardinal's Guard, eh, M. Athos?

Athos: You're a liar. It's the smallpox.

Doctor: One sees that immediately...

Athos: Don't pretend you know one from the other -- or that it would make any difference to your treatment if you did!

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A Cold Response to a Golden Inquiry

Porthos: [Of his new golden baldric] It's gold belting all the way round!

Aramis: Astonishing! There is enough gold in France to stretch all that distance?

Musketeer: May I lift the costly cloak to admire the belt more?

Porthos: [hastily] No, no, sir, your pardon, sir -- I have a cold.

Aramis: Discretion being the better part of vanity!

Porthos: I don't understand! I know the one about valor, but I don't agree. I can't agree to be discreet about how valiant I am. Shouldn't be asked.

Tensions Rise at a Social Gathering

Rochefort: [to d'Artagnan] If you were a gentleman, I would speak to you. I was speaking at you.

Buckingham: If anyone should try to follow us, would you be so good as to kill him? Thank you.

M. Bonancieux: Well, I don't want to be sent to the Bastille, me, 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!

Partygoer: [Of the wine fountain at the King's soirée] Keep going, Reggie, it's filling up!

Cardinal's Guard: [D'Artagnan has just torn a carpet in an attempt to trip the guards] He's torn our carpet!

A Risky Bet on Loyalty

Athos: [Of Porthos' and Aramis' tennis-playing skills; [w:Huguenot|Huguenot; [w:Pope|Papacy] I'd rather wager on a ] for the ] than gamble on you two!

Warning About a Dangerous Adversary

Athos: Let me tell you something about this...inconvenient gentleman of yours. His name is Rochefort. He's the Cardinal's living blade, and he is deadly. And, as for this Rochefort, if you see him walking on the other side of the road one day, don't bother to cross it, that's all.