Extended Reading

Children of Paradise quotes

  • Pierre-François Lacenaire: Is it not absurd to ask people who they are?

    Édouard, Count de Montray: Excuse me?

    Pierre-François Lacenaire: That's why they're so evasive. They give you the easy reply: a name, a title. But who they are really, who they are deep down, they conceal with great care.

  • Mme Hermine: You're being unreasonable.

    Baptiste: True, I'm unreasonable.

    Mme Hermine: Shutting yourself up like a monk!

    Baptiste: No, monks pray. I sleep, I dream.