The Three Musketeers (1973)

Charlton Heston: Cardinal Richelieu

Quotes 

• Cardinal Richelieu : Who is the man that accuses you?

  Bonacieux : [Rochefort enters and Bonacieux points at him]  That! That is the man!

  Count Rochefort : Take him away.

  Bonacieux : That is *not* the man!

• Rochefort : I failed. One does occasionally.

  Cardinal Richelieu : If I blundered as you do, my head would fall.

  Rochefort : I would say from a greater height than mine, Eminence.

  Cardinal Richelieu : You would?

  Rochefort : The height of vaulting ambition.

  Cardinal Richelieu : You have none?

  Rochefort : No.

  Cardinal Richelieu : Do you fear me, Rochefort?

  Rochefort : Yes, I fear you, Eminence. I also hate you.

  Cardinal Richelieu : I love you, my son. Even when you fail.

• Cardinal Richelieu : They have won, we have lost. The point, that is; the game continues.

• Lady de Winter : Your Eminence is a great player - great enough to lose. I do not like to lose.

  Cardinal Richelieu : You must suit yourself, Milady. But if in the end you should, do it with a becoming grace.

• Cardinal Richelieu : [referring to Anne of Austria]  Her Majesty's beauty attracts all manner of worship... and worshippers. But her virtue is beyond question.

• Cardinal Richelieu : You failed me. I have lost. You lost the point. The game continues.

  Lady de Winter : You will not seek him out? This - boy who has outwitted you?

  Cardinal Richelieu : To what end? Vengeance? That is an expensive luxury. Statesmen cannot afford it.