- James Phelps: The only thing at stake here is one man's life. He happens to be a friend of mine. We'll be improvising all along the way, according to what...
- Barney Collier: Jim, we're wasting time.
- James Phelps: Now, understand, Barney. This could be as dangerous as anything I've ever put you through.
- Willy Armitage: Jim, I...
- James Phelps: No, Willy, let me finish, please. The problem is purely personal. It's mine. None of you has to get involved at all.
- Barney Collier: Are you finished now?
- James Phelps: Yes.
- Rollin Hand: Good. Jim, not often, but sometimes, you talk too much.
- [last lines]
- David Webster: [after having come out of hiding in his cell] Guard? Do you have any cigarettes? I seem to have run out.
- [first lines]
- David Webster: I'm not afraid to die. That isn't it. It's dying *this way*. I didn't kill that guy, Jim. You believe me?
- James Phelps: Of course I believe you. I wouldn't be here if I didn't. We grew up together, David. If there's one thing I know, it's that you didn't kill a man in cold blood.
- James Phelps: I've been praying. Maybe you're the answer.
- Edmund Constantine: Webster killed George Corley for a piece of jewelry worth 10 million dollars.
- James Phelps: What this uh... this crown thing?
- Edmund Constantine: This "crown thing" was worn by the Empress Theodora in the fifth century. Six months ago it was stolen from the Athens state museum by George Corley.