The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974)

Oliver Reed: Athos

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Quotes 

• [after seeing Athos stumble down a flight of stairs] 

  D'Artagnan : Athos, are you hurt?

  Athos : Hurt? What I am is drunk.

• Athos : And you mark this: you kill Buckingham or have him killed, it's no matter to me. He's an Englishman and an enemy. But you touch one hair of D'Artagnan's head and I swear, as God is my judge, I'll break you on the wheel with my own hand.

  MiLady DeWinter : No. Monsieur D'Artagnan has assaulted me, insulted me...

  Athos : [shouts]  Since when has it been possible to insult *you*, Madame?

  MiLady DeWinter : And he will die for it.

  Athos : [produces a pistol]  Have you ever seen a woman shot in the stomach? You know me, Milady. Give me the papers the Cardinal wrote just now. I'll give you five seconds.

• [Richelieu has given D'Artagnan a commission as a lieutenant in the Musketeers] 

  D'Artagnan : It is too much! I cannot accept it. Athos, you take it.

  Athos : No, for the Comte de la Fère it is too little; for Athos, too much.

• Athos : [He has cornered the fleeing Milady after her murder of Constance]  You won't need a horse on the journey you're taking, Madame. I warned you, did I not?

• Athos : [From the St. Rochelle bastion to the attacking rebels]  Gentlemen! A moment please! We're having breakfast!

  [He is fired at] 

  Athos : Barbarians! Have they no manners?

• Athos : [He is face to face with Milady]  The Gascon was right... you're still beautiful.

  [He advances into the light; she recognizes him] 

  MiLady DeWinter : The Comte de la Fere!

  Athos : No, Milady. The Comte de la Fere is dead. You killed me years ago... out riding on a summer's day.

  [Her hand strays towards the hidden brand on her left shoulder] 

  Athos : It's burned no deeper into you than it is into me.

• D'Artagnan : [of Milady]  I love her with my head. But my Constance, snatched from my side, I love with my heart.

  Athos : You have a conveniently discriminating anatomy.

• Athos : Leave now. Leave Paris, leave France. Get as far from that evil woman's grasp as you can.

• MiLady DeWinter : What do you want of me? There's nothing between us.

  Athos : Thank God! But there might be.

• Swiss Officer : Warm work, gentlemen. And where were the Musketeers?

  Aramis : At our prayers, sir, like good Christians!

  Swiss Officer : Ha! By God, sir, so was I! And with good reason. That bastion was buzzing like a beehive.

  Athos : And yet you did not stay for breakfast, sir.

  Swiss Officer : Neither would you.

  Athos : Hmm. Will you bet on that? I'll wager you, better more I will wager you the finest dinner on this camp that my friends and I will have breakfast on that bastion, now.

  Swiss Officer : [laughs]  Done. Done! Do you hear that, Spengler? You and I will eat that big dinner alone, I think!

  D'Artagnan : What is it? What's new?

  Porthos : Ah. Our good friends Athos proposes to have us killed for breakfast. Up yonder.

  D'Artagnan : What?

  Athos : Planchet, get me a basket, some bread, and four cold chickens. Ham, some oysters, and eight bottles of wine, now.

  Planchet : Oh fine.

  Porthos : And make the wine champagne.

  Aramis : At breakfast? Oh my dear Porthos.

• Athos : [the Musketeers have captured MiLady]  As the Comte de la Fere; with the rights of high, middle and low justice, I accuse this woman of the murder of Constance de Bonacieux. How say you?

  Aramis : Death.

  Porthos : Death.

  D'Artagnan : [Hesitating]  Death.

  Athos : Death.

  MiLady DeWinter : No! You have no power of justice over me! D'Artagnan! If you love me; do not let them do this!

  Athos : Make one move to save her, D'Artagnan and we will cross swords; and this time, I swear I will kill you.

• Athos : It takes a love story to cure you of love - of fascinating women.

• Athos : Tell me something. Is your Milady as beautiful as the dew?

  D'Artagnan : She's as magnificent as summer's dew. As that.

  Athos : I beg of you forget her. She will do you some mischief.