The Beloved Rogue (1927)

John Barrymore: François Villon

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Quotes 

• François Villon : Happy is Paris, where fools reign once a year - while everywhere else the fools reign all the time!

• François Villon : Every man has two souls - one for the world, and one for the woman he loves.

• Charlotte de Vauxcelles : Villon is a great poet - an immortal -- and one must sorrow that a man of such genius should be a drunken clown.

  François Villon : Yes, I have always told him he drank too much.

  Charlotte de Vauxcelles : You *know* him?

  François Villon : I've known him since he was born, and I expect to be with him when he dies.

• François Villon : Fear not. Mademoiselle - no tomcat knows the rooftops so well as I.

• François Villon : I had always supposed, dear lady, the way to heaven was difficult and slow -- till this moment.

• François Villon : Serve love and ladies day and night, You'll get no profit nor delight, But only broken heads and sighs! Light love makes asses of the wise...

• François Villon : You offspring of an ox!

• François Villon : Fellow jack-asses -- and ladies! Lend me your long ears!

• King Louis XI : Master Villon, you are the best writer of verse in Paris...

  François Villon : Your Majesty's taste is exquisite.

  King Louis XI : - and the most insolent rogue in France!

• François Villon : Mademoiselle, I wonder if you realize that your eyes have swept my heart clean again -- and kindled a fire there that shall outlast me.

  Charlotte de Vauxcelles : A man who sings so divinely must be better at heart than he pretends to the world.

• François Villon : Charlotte, since you came into my life, my eyes have seen but one image - my heart has heard one voice...

  Charlotte de Vauxcelles : Master Villon has not a reputation for fidelity!

  François Villon : You are my love, my only love!

  [kiss] 

  Charlotte de Vauxcelles : Francois - Francois... .

• Charlotte de Vauxcelles : I prefer listening to the *poet* Villon - rather than the *courtier* Villon.

  François Villon : And perhaps Mademoiselle prefers listening to her pride - rather than to her heart!

• Charlotte de Vauxcelles : [after François has proposed marriage]  This is why I wished not to listen to you. Charlotte of Vauxcelles may not marry a man without lands and a great name.

  François Villon : [Looking astonished]  A great name? I am Francois Villon! My songs will keep your beauty alive when the pride of your class is forgotten in dust!

• François Villon : How do you think they will mingle at our wedding-feast - your high-born rogues and my low-born rogues?

• Villon's Mother : Francois -- I was dreaming of you! I saw my boy at the right hand of the king - the saviour of France.

  François Villon : Mother, your son is most unworthy to live so high in your dreams.

  Villon's Mother : Your father died to save France. You shall *live* to save France.

• François Villon : We, whose fathers drove out the English Lion, will not let the Wolf of Burgundy devour France!

• François Villon : Little Beppo's body is less deformed than Burgundy's soul.

• King Louis XI : Master Villon, you disobeyed me. You hang tomorrow. What say you to that?

  François Villon : Princes to death are all foretold, even as the humblest of their array; whether they sorrow or whether they scold, the winds carry their like away!"

• François Villon : [after being catapulted through a skylight into Charlotte Vauxcelles' room at the inn]  I've left the chamber of many a dame In such a haste that was free from discussion, But never before, in a lady's boudoir, Have I landed with such a concussion.