The Advocate (1993)
Colin Firth: Richard Courtois
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Quotes
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Filette d'Auferre : Would you rather have a woman you knew to be a harlot that all the World thought was virtuous, or a woman you know to be pure that all the World thought was a harlot?
Richard Courtois : ...I'm sorry a woman...?
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Richard Courtois : You'd sell yourself for a pig?
Samira : It's money and food for the winter.
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Richard Courtois : You're a melancholy fellow, Mathieu. Get yourself smartened up and we'll go to a brothel.
Mathieu : Brothel?
Richard Courtois : Well, there won't be one in this piss-arse town, but there'll be one in L'Avignon.
Mathieu : Maitre, this is the brothel.
Richard Courtois : What?
Mathieu : The Abville Inn is the Abville Whorehouse.
Richard Courtois : [incredulous] What, that skinny girl? I never gave her a sous!
Mathieu : They put it down as the "lodging tax."
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Richard Courtois : [of the priest's privately-expressed skepticism about witchcraft] Would you say all that in court?
Albertius : Richard, I like it here; it's a very nice living. Having my balls burnt off in public might take some of the pleasure out of it.
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Richard Courtois : There must be priests in Hell.
Albertius : Can't move for them.
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Albertius : ...why, I myself saw the Bishop of Rheims pronounce the act of anathema against a swarm of locusts.
Richard Courtois : Really? How did they take it?
Albertius : Difficult to say with locusts.
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Richard Courtois : [Awakens from a dream] Now why did I see that face?
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Richard Courtois : So he's a spy for the Inquisition?
Tavernkeeper : They don't know that we know.
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First Witness : It ran...
Richard Courtois : Like a guilty thing? They say their lines well, don't they?
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Richard Courtois : He insulted her, you have to let her go!
Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre : What was that, Courtois? I don't think anyone heard you...
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Richard Courtois : I'm looking forward to locking swords with you.
[Pincheon just ignores him]
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Richard Courtois : [the "Witch" is going to be hanged on a technicality] Why didn't I know that?
Pincheon : Custom and Practise!
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Richard Courtois : [shown a "Mark of Satan"] That was a birthmark before you stuck your dagger in it.
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Richard Courtois : What, one law for the rich?
Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre : Yes! Always!
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Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre : It's only a pig!
Richard Courtois : No, not THAT pig. Not now.
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Richard Courtois : We must have a retrial. This pig has the same colour, the same markings.
Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre : All this again?
Richard Courtois : Well, let's clear this up. Pig, do you have a demon in you?
[the farmer sticks it with a dagger and it squeals]
Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre : Such a full and frank confession cannot be ignored.
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Richard Courtois : Look how she holds herself! Country girls, Mathieu.
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Richard Courtois : My God, that dog smiled at me.
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Albertius : They knew it was only a game.
Richard Courtois : Really? Or were one or two of them afraid you really meant it?
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Richard Courtois : [sees the Pig] What is this?
Prison Warden : Your Client!
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Albertius : Jeannine said "Look to the boy".
Richard Courtois : I did that and all I found was a little heap of bones and another good citizen too scared to... Wrong...?
Albertius : Wrong boy.
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Albertius : [looking at women in the public baths] Ah, there are sweet beasts and smelly beasts... there's a sweet one.
Richard Courtois : I can't stop thinking about them.
Albertius : Well, the Good Lord sent them to try us, and by Heaven he knew what he was doing.
[ducks underwater to cool off]
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Richard Courtois : Did anybody see?
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Richard Courtois : Is a pig big enough to hold a devil? How about a flea? You don't really believe what you've been saying here, do you?
Pincheon : This is monstrous!
Albertius : Oh I believe it, Maitre, every word.
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Richard Courtois : [to the pig] Excuse me, do you have a Devil in you?