“I neither require nor desire your gratitude, mistress. I want nothing in these worlds save your death." Volusian to Eugenie”

“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”

“Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”

“If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.”

“...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.”

“The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion”