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9 quotes from Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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To see the court without seeing Marguerite de Valois is to see neither France nor the court.

— An Italian scholar, quoted in narration · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

In giving my sister Margot to Henry of Navarre, I give my sister to all the Protestants of the kingdom.

— Charles IX (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

Queen, I have no throne; wife, I have no husband!

— Marguerite de Valois (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

I now know that some one is concealed here--that you are an unfaithful wife, but a faithful ally; and just now, I confess, I have more need of fidelity in politics than in love.

— Henri de Navarre (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

Death, mass, or the Bastille!

— Charles IX (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

Well, then, I am not of your opinion; a dead enemy's corpse always smells sweet.

— Charles IX (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

I love you more than any woman, and I love La Mole more than any man.

— Annibal de Coconnas (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

You can always weep when you wish to; but I, at the moment of my greatest sorrows, am always forced to smile.

— Charles IX (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

Adieu, adieu, youth, love, life!

— La Mole (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

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