Jennifer Jones
(as Emma Bovary)
Jennifer Jones
(as Emma Bovary)
Louis Jourdan
(as Rodolphe Boulanger)
Rodolphe Boulanger:
I'm a fairly courageous man, Emma, but I was afraid of you.
Emma Bovary: No! Oh... oh, I ask for too much, I know it. I expected too much of you.
Rodolphe Boulanger: You asked for something that consumes while it burns - that destroys everything it touches. I didn't want to be destroyed.
Emma Bovary: No! Oh... oh, I ask for too much, I know it. I expected too much of you.
Rodolphe Boulanger: You asked for something that consumes while it burns - that destroys everything it touches. I didn't want to be destroyed.
Van Heflin
(as Charles Bovary)
Charles Bovary:
[to the Marquis] I'm just a village doctor and it isn't often I have the honor of murdering such a distinguished patient.
Van Heflin
(as Charles Bovary)
Van Heflin
(as Charles Bovary)
Charles Bovary:
This could be a disaster, Emma, these people are aristocrats, I know them, I've treated their servants.
James Mason
(as Gustave Flaubert)
Gustave Flaubert:
[at his trial] To declare that men have absolute power over truth is blasphemy, and the last delusion. Truth lives forever, men do not.
James Mason
(as Gustave Flaubert)
Gustave Flaubert:
Could it have been otherwise? She had wept no doubt in the early morning hours. Was Emma the first bride to weep while the bridegroom slept? Or the last? Tristan, Lancelot, love in a Scotch cottage, love in a Swiss chalet...
James Mason
(as Gustave Flaubert)
James Mason
(as Gustave Flaubert)
Gustave Flaubert:
She had learned to be a woman for whom experience would always be a prison, and freedom would lie always beyond the horizon.