[JOLIE] “Pride, that’s what it’s all about. Lucifer was too proud to play runner-up to someone he felt superior to, so he set up his own shop.”
[MR. PLECKI] “And what did Dante say was written on the gates of Lucifer’s shop?”
[JOLIE] “‘Abandon all hope ye who enter here.'”
[UNNAMED GIRL IN CLASS] “That’s what it should say on the door to this school.”
The HBO Films movie Cheaters (2000; dir. John Stockwell) is currently available to view on YouTube here (last accessed February 15, 2020). The quoted exchange happens 3:35-3:52.
Contributed by Sarah Scherkenbach (The Bolles School ’22)
