The Musketeers (TV Series)

Commodities (2014)

James Callis: Émile Bonnaire

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Quotes 

• [to a barmaid] 

  Émile Bonnaire : The tail feather of an Amazonian macaw, quite the loveliest bird in the jungle, yet not half so lovely as you. It matches your eyes perfectly.

  D'Artagnan : [to Aramis]  Seduced by a feather. Really?

  Aramis : Anyone can tell a woman she's beautiful. Making her believe it is where the genius lies.

• [speaking at Maria Bonnaire's grave] 

  Émile Bonnaire : Forgive me, my love. You deserved a better man.

  [Emile begins to sob] 

  Émile Bonnaire : I seem to have forgotten all my old prayers.

  Aramis : Nothing that suffers can pass without merit in the sight of God. Amen.

• [first lines] 

  Émile Bonnaire : Drinks for the whole house!

• Porthos : Men are born free. No one has the right to make slaves of them.

  Émile Bonnaire : Yes, but the real world isn't driven by romantic notions of freedom, is it? It's driven by commerce... and I'm a trader. That's all. I deal in commodities.

  Porthos : A man is not a commodity.

  Émile Bonnaire : Oh, in Africa he is.

• Émile Bonnaire : I refuse to arrive at the palace on an ass and I'm within my rights to demand a fresh set of clothes.

  Porthos : What rights?

  Émile Bonnaire : The rights of every man to some fair treatment. Justice, dignity... a little dignity.

  Aramis : You do know how ironic that sounds coming from a slave trader?

• Émile Bonnaire : I've always admired men of a military disposition. My father raised me on tales of the great heroism of the Musketeers.

  Porthos : Who was he? Nostradamus? The regiment didn't even exist then.

• Cardinal Richelieu : It appears you had quite an adventure on your way here.

  Émile Bonnaire : Some adventures a man can live without.

  Cardinal Richelieu : I'm curious. How would you define a good adventure?

  Émile Bonnaire : Where the potential rewards outweigh the risks, I'd say.