Other Titles • The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) • Monte Cristo (2002) • Montecristo (2002)
Quotes from The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
1
Edmond: There are 72,519 stones in my walls. I've counted them many times. Abbe Faria: But have you named them yet?
(102 votes)
2
Albert Mondego: Who are you, and why are you doing this? Luigi: We are bad men, and for the money!
(58 votes)
3
Count of Monte Cristo: [to Fernand Mondego] May I steal your wife? Fernand: Excuse me? Count of Monte Cristo: For the waltz?
(43 votes)
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Abbe Faria: God said "Vengeance is mine". Edmond: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter. He believes in you.
(34 votes)
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Abbe Faria: When I told them I had no idea where Count Spada hid his treasure, I lied. Edmond: You lied? Abbe Faria: I'm a priest, not a saint.
(36 votes)
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Dorleac: Let's make a bargain. You ask God for help, and I'll stop the moment He shows up.
(8 votes)
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Luigi: Oh, and by the way, Jacopo is the best knife fighter I have ever seen. Edmond: Perhaps you should get out more.
(7 votes)
8
Edmond: If you ever loved me, don't rob me of my hate. It's all I have left.
(7 votes)
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Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine". Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.
(6 votes)
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Danglar: [while he is about to be hanged] Who are you? Edmond: The Count of Monte Cristo. [beat] Edmond: But my friends call me Edmond Dantes!
(5 votes)
11
Mercedes: Is Viscount Torville dead? Fernand: Well, unless his heart is situated somewhere other than the left side of his chest, I suspect he is. Mercedes: [choking up, and making the sign of the cross] God grant him peace. He did no more than defend his family's honor. Fernand: Much good it did him. His wife and I were happy in our passion. You were happy in your ignorance. Now comes the viscount's valiant defense of his honor, and you are pained. She is ruined, and he is dead. Mercedes: Don't flatter yourself, Fernand. I was neither happy, nor ignorant, having known about the last three women before Madame Tourville. Fernand: I'm sorry that you are humiliated. The combination of Paris and me is hardly a recipe for fidelity, is it? But since my attempts at discretion have evidently failed, there seems little point in keeping up pretenses. It's actually quite... liberating. Wouldn't you say?
(6 votes)
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Mercedes: I want to free myself of you, as you have obviously freed yourself of me.
(4 votes)
13
Fernand: What happened to your mercy? Edmond Dantes: I'm a count, not a saint.
(5 votes)
14
Danglar: You presume to demote me? Morell: Not at all. You're still the first mate of the Pharaon, under Captain Dantes.
(6 votes)
15
Fernand: Monte Cristo! Edmond: King, to you Fernand. Fernand: Edmond? How did you... Edmond: Escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this very moment? With pleasure! Fernand: So, it was you that stole Mercedes. Edmond: And everything else. Except your life. Fernand: Why are you doing this? Edmond: [pauses] It's complicated. Let's just say it's vengeance from the life that you stole from me.
(3 votes)
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Jacopo: Why not just kill them? I'll do it! I'll run up to Paris - bam, bam, bam, bam. I'm back before week's end. We spend the treasure. How is this a bad plan?
(3 votes)
17
Jacopo: I swear on my dead relatives - and even on the ones who are not feeling too good - I am your man forever!
(3 votes)
18
Mercedes: I will never forget your kindness. Fernand: I shall never cease to give it.
(3 votes)
19
Abbe Faria: Define Economics. Edmond: Economics is a science dealing with the production, distribution and consumption of commodities. Abbe Faria: Translation? Edmond: Dig first, money later.
(3 votes)
20
Mercedes: What's wrong? Fernand: I'm bankrupt. All my debts have been called in. Also, it appears I am to be arrested. Mercedes: For what? Fernand: Piracy, corruption, and murder. Mercedes: Did you do all these things? Fernand: Yes. But there's simply not the time to talk about it. The gendarmes are on their way, apparently, so hurry up and pack something. Mercedes: I'm not going with you, Fernand. [Fernand turns towards her and angrily breaks a mirror] Fernand: [Panting] You are my wife. I have made arrangements for us. We shall be very well taken care of. Now go and find my son. [Fernand walks briskly away from Mercedes] Mercedes: He's not your son. [Fernand stops dead in his tracks] Fernand: I beg your pardon? Mercedes: Albert Mondego is the son of Edmond Dantes. [pause] Mercedes: Why do you think I rushed off so quickly to marry you when Edmond was taken away? Fernand: [staring blankly in full realization] Premature. [Fernand steps towards Mercedes and stares piercingly down at her] Fernand: Well aren't you a piece of work. So he's the bastard son of a dead traitor? [Mercedes smirks] Fernand: He always was disappointing.
(3 votes)
21
Edmond: If you ever presume to interfere in my affairs again, I will, I promise you, finish the job I started the day we met! Do you understand? Jacopo: I understand you are mad. Edmond: Mad? My enemies are falling into my traps perfectly! Jacopo: Mad for not seeing this: you have a fortune, a beautiful woman who loves you. Take the gold, take the woman, and live your life! Stop this plan, take what you have won! Edmond: I can't. Jacopo: Why not?
(4 votes)
22
Dorleac: Now you're thinking, just now "Why me, O God?". The answer is, God has nothing to do with it. In fact, God is never in France this time of year.
(4 votes)
23
Luigi: We shall call him... Zatarra. Edmond: Sounds fearsome. Luigi: It means, "driftwood."
(2 votes)
24
Edmond: Why? In God's name, why? Fernand: Because you're the son of a clerk, and I'm not supposed to want to be you!
(2 votes)
25
Jacopo: I am still your man, Zatarra. I swore an oath, and I will protect you. Even if it means I must protect you from yourself.
(2 votes)
26
Abbe Faria: With two of us digging, we can cover twice the ground. It'll only take us, oh... 8 years to reach the outer wall. [Edmond laughs] Abbe Faria: You have some other occupation? Some pressing appointment, perhaps?
(2 votes)
27
[Danglar is hanging from a rope off a ship] Edmond: [to the chief Gendarme] Cut him down before he can't talk.
(2 votes)
28
Fernand: Come in Albert, and for God's sake be brief.
(2 votes)
29
Mercedes: I don't know what dark plan lies within you. Nor do I know by what design we were asked to live without each other these 16 years. But God has offered us a new beginning... Edmond: God? Mercedes: Don't slap His hand away. Edmond: Can I never escape Him? Mercedes: No, He is in everything. Even in a kiss.
(2 votes)
30
Napoleon: We are kings or pawns.
(3 votes)
31
J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: Mondego's the one who pulled the trigger! He'd never confess in a million years! Count of Monte Cristo: I know. But you just did.
(3 votes)
32
J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: How is your father? Fernand: Alive, unfortunately. J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: We share the same misfortune.
(2 votes)
33
Dorleac: Come on, come on, I haven't got all day... wait. Actually, I do. I've got... [laughs] Dorleac: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD!
(2 votes)
34
Prison guard: [after accidentally throwing Dorleac off the cliff together with a supposedly dead body] We could have handled this one better.
(2 votes)
35
Jacopo: I bid you good afternoon, sir. I am here to purchase your lovely home. Mansion Owner: [Laughing] The very cheek! I shall have you horsewhipped! Now get off my property, you vagabond, before I set the dogs on you, you hear? Jacopo: [Jacapo lowers the wagon lid and reveals the treasure. The mansion owner sobers up and hands him the property contract] Thank you.
(2 votes)
36
Abbe Faria: In return for your help in digging this tunnel, I offer you something priceless. Edmond: My freedom? Abbe Faria: No, freedom can be taken away, as you well know. I offer you my knowledge.
(2 votes)
37
Luigi: [Laughs] Release Jacopo, and give him back his knife. And we'll let the games begin.
38
Jacopo: Once again, Zatarra, God sees you out of the corner of His eye.
39
Abbe Faria: The stronger swordsman does not necessarily win. It is speed! Speed of hand, speed of mind.
40
Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson: do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence.
41
Abbe Faria: The doors open twice a day. Once in the morning for your toilet bucket, which is where we hide the dirt. And once more in the evening for your plate. Between those times, we can work all day without fear of discovery. Edmond: So neglect becomes our ally.
42
Fernand: Take your vengeance. But know that the blood you spill is noble. Blood that will never run through your veins. You are no more a count than I am a commoner!
43
J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: I require seventy percent. Fernand: Yet, you should only get fifty. J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: Done.
44
Mercedes: Albert, I found the note you left explaining where you'd gone. But now I must explain something to you. Where you've really come from. Albert, you are the son of Edmond Dantes. The man you know as the Count of Monte Cristo. [Albert Mondego turns to Fernand Mondego] Fernand: Well, I'm afraid it is true. You are the walking proof that your mother was as much of a whore in her younger years as she is today.
45
J.F. Villefort, Chief Magistrate: I don't see how any of this has anything to do with our business relationship! Count of Monte Cristo: [calmly] I'm about to tell you.
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Edmond: You only got one shot. And it'll take more than that to stop me. Fernand: Well, then, I best put it where it will do the most damage.
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