- Camille Desmoulins: [Danton has just called Robespierre a eunuch] Well, how did it go?
- Georges-Jacques Danton: I could have been more diplomatic.
- Marie Antoinette: [the queen has just lost huge amount of gold in cards game] I'm ruined again! We shall have to tell the poor man, that I can't pay my debts and that he has to pay them for me. After all, I am his wife.