The Three Musketeers

by

Alexandre Dumas

Queen Anne is the wife of King Louis XIII. She is a lonely woman whom her husband treats harshly. Although she loves the Duke of Buckingham, she refuses to be with him because she is worried about the scandal it will cause. Additionally, she is fiercely against the war between the French and the English, and she urges the duke to put an end to it.

Queen Anne Quotes in The Three Musketeers

The The Three Musketeers quotes below are all either spoken by Queen Anne or refer to Queen Anne. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Friendship and Loyalty Theme Icon
).
Chapter 12 Quotes

Yes, but you know why I’m seeing you, Duke: I’m seeing you out of pity; I’m seeing you because you’ve stubbornly insisted on remaining in a city where you’re risking your life and making me risk my honor; I’m seeing you to tell you that everything separates us: the depths of the sea, the enmity of kingdoms, the sanctity of vows. It’s sacrilegious to struggle against all those things. And finally, I’m seeing you to tell you that we must never see each other again.

Related Characters: Queen Anne (speaker), The Duke of Buckingham
Page Number: 124-125
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

The king’s animosity against the queen was deftly nurtured by the cardinal, who was much warier of women than of men in matters of intrigue.

Related Characters: Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII, Queen Anne, The Duke of Buckingham
Page Number: 150
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 41 Quotes

The cardinal, as is well known, had been in love with the queen. We cannot say whether his love had a simple political goal or whether it was one of the deep passions that Anne of Austria aroused in those around her, but in any case we know that the duke of Buckingham had won out over him before the beginning of this story and that in later circumstances […] the duke had outwitted him.

Related Characters: Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, The Duke of Buckingham
Page Number: 406
Explanation and Analysis:
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Queen Anne Quotes in The Three Musketeers

The The Three Musketeers quotes below are all either spoken by Queen Anne or refer to Queen Anne. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Friendship and Loyalty Theme Icon
).
Chapter 12 Quotes

Yes, but you know why I’m seeing you, Duke: I’m seeing you out of pity; I’m seeing you because you’ve stubbornly insisted on remaining in a city where you’re risking your life and making me risk my honor; I’m seeing you to tell you that everything separates us: the depths of the sea, the enmity of kingdoms, the sanctity of vows. It’s sacrilegious to struggle against all those things. And finally, I’m seeing you to tell you that we must never see each other again.

Related Characters: Queen Anne (speaker), The Duke of Buckingham
Page Number: 124-125
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

The king’s animosity against the queen was deftly nurtured by the cardinal, who was much warier of women than of men in matters of intrigue.

Related Characters: Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII, Queen Anne, The Duke of Buckingham
Page Number: 150
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 41 Quotes

The cardinal, as is well known, had been in love with the queen. We cannot say whether his love had a simple political goal or whether it was one of the deep passions that Anne of Austria aroused in those around her, but in any case we know that the duke of Buckingham had won out over him before the beginning of this story and that in later circumstances […] the duke had outwitted him.

Related Characters: Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, The Duke of Buckingham
Page Number: 406
Explanation and Analysis: