A Scandal in Paris

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Sometimes the chains of matrimony are so heavy they have to be carried by three.

Mimi De Pierremont:
No man is a saint.

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
There's no fool so dangerous as a fool with brains.

Loretta:
Except a woman so foolish as to fall in love.

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Women always surprise us by doing the expected.

Loretta:
Really, I... I should call the police.

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Don't call them until I've bought you another hat.

Loretta:
Another?... another hat? Well, I admit I'm not so rich that I can afford to throw them in the gutter. Hats don't grow on trees, you know!

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
I know that some of the latest fashions look as if they did.

Loretta:
[to Vidocq] I must say you commit your crimes a la mode.

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Only the heartless succeed in crime - as in love.

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Try to see further than the point of your knife. If I become chief of police, we'll have a chance to loot the city.

Emile Vernet:
Loot a city? What does that mean?

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Conservatively... fifteen million.

Emile Vernet:
Fifteen...?

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
...million... in gold.

Emile Vernet:
Where is it?

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
In the vault of the Bank of Paris.

Emile Vernet:
Bank of Paris? Hmmmnnnn... Such a job! No! Too big for the two of us!

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Yes, but we can enlist the support of your dear family.

Emile Vernet:
Yeah, family!... Yeah, but we'll have to give them a cut.

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
A small percentage.

Emile Vernet:
Nah... no percentage! Just a cut!

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Like most good men, I came from a poor but honest family - a little poorer than honest. The difference accounted for my being born in prison. Whenever poor mama expected another baby and consequently needed shelter, it was her custom to steal a loaf of bread and go to prison. She had stolen eleven loaves, served eleven sentences, and had eleven children, when to her misfortunes were added a twelfth. When poor mama went to a better world, leaving me to make the best of this one, what is more natural than that I should often return to the happy scene of my earliest childhood?

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
In crime, as in love, there are only those who do, and those who don't dare.

Priest:
Within all of us is a saint as well as a dragon.

Eug?ne Fran?ois Vidocq:
Love and crime make incompatible bedfellows. The most perfect criminal can be traced in court if he leaves his heart behind him as a clue.