“I am not about to send anyone after a missing tapestry just to pacify two women and a priest.”
“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”
“It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?”
“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
“I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.”
“I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.”