Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Anouk Aimée: The Queen

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Quotes 

• Queen Bera : Hebrews and Sodomites: Greetings!

• Queen Bera : It is our pleasure - to give you pleasure. So, let us make you - comfortable.

  Lot : You're wasting your time. I didn't come here to be drowned in wine and smothered in cushions.

• Queen Bera : As always, he thinks no further than the point of his sword.

• Malik : He's blind.

  Queen Bera : Blind? What a wonderful idea! So delightfully imaginative. It makes the whole affair much more interesting.

• Ildith : Is this why I was schooled? To live here with herdsman - in huts of - stinking hide?

  Queen Bera : You were schooled to do whatever pleases my whim.

• Queen Bera : I must say that at times, you men make me envy your freedom of activity.

• Queen Bera : Sweetest brother. Oldest and dearest enemy of all.

  [seductively caresses Astaroth's cheek and sticks her finger in his mouth, he bites it, she smiles] 

  Queen Bera : Huh! You drew blood.

  Astaroth : I know.

  [he sticks his finger in Queen Bera's mouth, she bites it, he remains stoneface] 

  Queen Bera : It doesn't give you any longer - pleasure?

  Astaroth : Not even pain.

  Queen Bera : Go! Do as I order.

  Astaroth : As you desire.

  [sarcastically] 

  Astaroth : Sweetest sister.

• Queen Bera : Their punishment will provide us entertainment.

• Queen Bera : Next only to the pleasure of giving death is the excitement of watching it.

• Queen Bera : In the name of righteousness and your God, you have abandoned yourself to the lust for blood. You are a true Sodomite, Lot. Welcome.

• Queen Bera : You have converted the Chosen People, Lot - to Sodom.

• Queen Bera : What you call sin, to me, is virtue.

• Queen Bera : I turn my back on you, Lot. On you.

• Queen Bera : They're dead. The entertainment has ended.

• Queen Bera : A hot wind from the desert. We'll have a storm. It will be beautiful.