- François Villon: Happy is Paris, where fools reign once a year - while everywhere else the fools reign all the time!
- Charlotte de Vauxcelles: Villon is a great poet - an immortal -- and one must sorrow that a man of such genius should be a drunken clown.
- François Villon: Yes, I have always told him he drank too much.
- Charlotte de Vauxcelles: You *know* him?
- François Villon: I've known him since he was born, and I expect to be with him when he dies.
- François Villon: I had always supposed, dear lady, the way to heaven was difficult and slow -- till this moment.
- François Villon: Serve love and ladies day and night, You'll get no profit nor delight, But only broken heads and sighs! Light love makes asses of the wise...
- King Louis XI: Master Villon, you are the best writer of verse in Paris...
- François Villon: Your Majesty's taste is exquisite.
- King Louis XI: - and the most insolent rogue in France!
- François Villon: Mademoiselle, I wonder if you realize that your eyes have swept my heart clean again -- and kindled a fire there that shall outlast me.
- Charlotte de Vauxcelles: A man who sings so divinely must be better at heart than he pretends to the world.
- King Louis XI: Villon has done me a good turn. It were well for him to die before he does me a bad one.
- François Villon: Charlotte, since you came into my life, my eyes have seen but one image - my heart has heard one voice...
- Charlotte de Vauxcelles: Master Villon has not a reputation for fidelity!
- François Villon: You are my love, my only love!
- [kiss]
- Charlotte de Vauxcelles: Francois - Francois... .
- Charlotte de Vauxcelles: I prefer listening to the *poet* Villon - rather than the *courtier* Villon.
- François Villon: And perhaps Mademoiselle prefers listening to her pride - rather than to her heart!
- Charlotte de Vauxcelles: [after François has proposed marriage] This is why I wished not to listen to you. Charlotte of Vauxcelles may not marry a man without lands and a great name.
- François Villon: [Looking astonished] A great name? I am Francois Villon! My songs will keep your beauty alive when the pride of your class is forgotten in dust!
- François Villon: How do you think they will mingle at our wedding-feast - your high-born rogues and my low-born rogues?
- Villon's Mother: Francois -- I was dreaming of you! I saw my boy at the right hand of the king - the saviour of France.
- François Villon: Mother, your son is most unworthy to live so high in your dreams.
- Villon's Mother: Your father died to save France. You shall *live* to save France.
- François Villon: We, whose fathers drove out the English Lion, will not let the Wolf of Burgundy devour France!
- Title Card: Tristan l'Hermite is the busiest man in France. He is the executioner!
- Title Card: Francois Villon - - poet, pickpocket, patriot - - loving France earnestly, Frenchwomen excessively, French wine exclusively... . JOHN BARRYMORE
- King Louis XI: Master Villon, you disobeyed me. You hang tomorrow. What say you to that?
- François Villon: Princes to death are all foretold, even as the humblest of their array; whether they sorrow or whether they scold, the winds carry their like away!"
- François Villon: [after being catapulted through a skylight into Charlotte Vauxcelles' room at the inn] I've left the chamber of many a dame In such a haste that was free from discussion, But never before, in a lady's boudoir, Have I landed with such a concussion.