“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”

“Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.”

“I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.”

“You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.”

“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”

“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”

“So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!”