Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Poster

(1988)

Glenn Close: Marquise de Merteuil

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  • Marquise de Merteuil : When I came out into society, I was fifteen. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while, under the table, I stuck a fork into the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with. And in the end, I distilled everything to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : One does not applaud the tenor for clearing his throat.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : Like most intellectuals, he's intensely stupid.

  • Vicomte de Valmont : Now, yes or no? It's up to you, of course. I will merely confine myself to remarking that a "no" will be regarded as a declaration of war. A single word is all that's required.

    Marquise de Merteuil : All right. War.

  • Vicomte de Valmont : I often wonder how you manage to invent yourself.

    Marquise de Merteuil : Well, I had no choice, did I? I'm a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent, not only myself, but ways of escape no one has every thought of before. And I've succeeded because I've always known I was born to dominate your sex and avenge my own.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : You'll find the shame is like the pain, you only feel it once.

  • Vicomte de Valmont : You see, I have no intention of breaking down her prejudices. I want her to believe in God and virtue and the sanctity of marriage, and still not be able to stop herself. I want the excitement of watching her betray everything that's is most important to her. Surely you understand that. I thought betrayal was your favorite word.

    Marquise de Merteuil : No, no..."cruelty." I always think that has a nobler ring to it.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : When it comes to marriage, one man is as good as the next. And even the least accomodating is less trouble than a mother.

  • Vicomte de Valmont : Why do you suppose we only feel compelled to chase the ones who run away?

    Marquise de Merteuil : Immaturity?

  • Marquise de Merteuil : [said to Valmont]  Vanity and happiness are incompatible.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : When one woman strikes at the heart of another she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : My victory wasn't over her.

    Vicomte de Valmont : Of Course it was. What are you talking about?

    Marquise de Merteuil : It was over you.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : One of the reasons I never re-married, despite a bewildering range of offers, was the determination NEVER AGAIN to be ordered about.

  • Vicomte de Valmont : Surely I've explained to you before how much I enjoy watching the battle between love and virtue.

    Marquise de Merteuil : What concerns me is that you seem to enjoy watching it much more than you used to enjoy winning it.

    Vicomte de Valmont : All in good time.

    Marquise de Merteuil : The century is drawing to its close.

  • Cécile de Volanges : Are you saying I'm going to have to do

    [swallows hard] 

    Cécile de Volanges : THAT with three different men?

    Marquise de Merteuil : I'm saying, you stupid little girl, that provided you take a few elementary precautions you can do it or not as often as you like, with as many different men as you like, in as many different ways as you like.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : Adopt a less marital tone of voice.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : Tell us we should think of the opera.

    Chevalier Danceny : Oh, it's sublime, don't you find?

    Marquise de Merteuil : Monsieur Danceny is one of those rare eccentrics who come here to listen to the music.

  • Marquise de Merteuil : Ah! Madame de Volanges!

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