Madelon: It's so dark in here.
Madelon: I can hear in the dark... speak.

François Barras: I arrived just in time to see Danton on his way out. Exactly as you planned, wasn't it?
Maximilian Robespierre: Danton was my friend, not yours. Why should you feel badly about it?
François Barras: Because Danton was a good soldier. Without him, France would have been overrun by the armies of Europe.
Maximilian Robespierre: That was yesterday. Like all good soldiers, he outlived his usefulness.

François Barras: This would make you dictator of France.
Maximilian Robespierre: Yes.
François Barras: We didn't storm the Bastille to make any man dictator.
Maximilian Robespierre: I'm not "any man".

Saint Just: You know something? I don't think you *are* Duval.
Charles D'Aubigny: No?
Saint Just: You don't look like a butcher.
Charles D'Aubigny: You know, at first glance, one could almost mistake you for a human being.