Favorite Quotes


Seeing as how there is no 'memorable quotes' section for Rules of the Game, I was wondering if I could get your opinion on what your favorite quotes in this movie are. I'll be back with a few of mine in a little while.

"Sand is overrated."

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Robert: That's the problem with life, everyone has their reasons.

Robert: You're a poet, a dangerous poet.

Octave: The room was draped in gold and green, the type of green only the English can think up.

Marceau: Before I do anything I make them laugh.
Robert: Yes but that takes talent.

Robert: Corneille, stop this farce!
Corneille: Which one your lordship?

Octave: I'm spitting in the water, it's the only thing I know how to do in life.

Marceau: With madame, with madame!

There's more, I just can't think of them.

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Marceau: Want my rabbit?


Octave: I thought it over all night. I'm going to dress as a bear.


Christine: Women should help each other once in a while.


Christine: Sincere people are always such bores.

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I'm probably getting the quote a little wrong, but I love when the cook refuses to indulge a demand for sea-salt and says:

"Diet I can handle, but not obsession."

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"I DONT HAVE A SICK MOTHER?! I DONT HAVE A SICK MOTHER?!" Im not sure if thats the exact line but that had to be one of my favorite lines and deliveries in the film.

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"love as it exists in society is merely the mingling of two whims & the contact of two skins"

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