- Antonio: Perhaps you're more used to fighting barbarians than gentlemen.
- Capt. Marcus Grisham: They all die the same way - screaming.
- [holding a sword to Grisham's throat]
- Antonio: Lesson 1: Make sure you choose your opponents, Captain. Don't let them choose you.
- Col. Luis Montoya: [to Grisham] Maybe I should let him kill you...
- [pause]
- Col. Luis Montoya: Not today.
- Col. Luis Montoya: These reports of your skill are true - the finest swordsman in Spain is also the finest in the Americas... and you will need to be if you're going to kill the Queen of Swords.
- Antonio: You confuse wealth with station.
- Col. Luis Montoya: No. It seems that you are the one who is confused. With enough cannons and gold, even the son of a lowly bureaucrat can aspire to become an emperor. You and I are both pragmatists, Don Antonio. We both know that everything has its price - including our honor.
- [lamenting leaving behind her former life in Spain]
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: I miss it, Marta. I miss the people, the music, the parties.
- Marta: You have a party to go to.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: But Montoya's parties are so boring. I'd rather go to the Day of the Dead fiesta with you. I'm tired of play acting the role of the spoiled aristocrat.
- Marta: You do a very good imitation.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: Yeah, I know. Even I hate myself sometimes.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: I'm not going.
- [Tessa ducks beneath the soapsuds in her bathtub, but Marta grabs her hair and pulls her up]
- Marta: The reason why you're going to the party is to find out when Montoya will be shipping the gold.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: I know.
- Marta: You're not going to have fun or to make silly conversation. Are you done complaining?
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: No.
- Marta: Fine!
- [Marta dunks Tessa's head under the bathwater]
- [discussing Antonio]
- Marta: You must protect yourself. You are not the same girl you were in Spain. That's what he wants - not you.
- The Queen of Swords: If all I wanted was gold, I'd take it and disappear with it... but what I want is justice.
- Antonio: There is no justice. The world is not a just place. No one gets their due.
- [Antonio and Grisham are trying to track the Queen of Swords across the desert]
- Capt. Marcus Grisham: You can waste your time, but not mine.
- Antonio: The only problem with being a soldier, Grisham, is that you are so busy taking orders, you stop relying on your own senses.
- Capt. Marcus Grisham: Look at the ground. You can't track anything in this soil.
- Antonio: I watched the Berbers in the Atlas Mountains track a scorpion for seven miles until they found it.
- Capt. Marcus Grisham: Well, then all we need are a few more Moroccans.
- Antonio: No - just one less American.
- Antonio: You still run. Senor Torres will be displeased.
- The Queen of Swords: I thought that staying alive was the most important thing.
- Antonio: Not above honor.
- The Queen of Swords: How can you speak of honor?
- Antonio: Ha! You are the one hiding behind a mask, not me. Who are you?
- [Antonio forces Grisham to reveal the location of Montoya's treasury]
- Antonio: Open it!
- Capt. Marcus Grisham: There is no key.
- Antonio: Well, then your services are no longer needed.
- [Antonio pistol whips him, knocking him unconscious]
- Marta: He's going to betray you.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: How do you know?
- Marta: I feel it.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: I don't.
- Marta: Of course not. You feel nothing but your own heat.
- [to Grisham, who has just killed Antonio, the only person who knew the Queen of Sword's identity]
- Col. Luis Montoya: It would warm my heart to think that your concern for my life was greater than your hatred for Antonio but I fear otherwise. Jealousy - I warned you about that earlier. Without discipline there is chaos and with chaos there is anarchy. Think of that tonight and learn that lesson.
- [last lines]
- [Tessa is praying for Antonio's soul in her church]
- Col. Luis Montoya: If I were not now in the house of God, I would curse her.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: You know, the Queen of Swords didn't kill Antonio.
- Col. Luis Montoya: If it were not for her, you would sailing right now for Spain with...
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: Please don't.
- Col. Luis Montoya: I am sorry. I should not speak of such things. Mark me, Dona Alvarado, someday soon the Queen will pay for all the suffering she has brought down on all our heads. I am sure I join you in praying for her swift and timely death.
- [during their swordfight]
- Antonio: Well done. I'm sure Senor Torres was your teacher.
- The Queen of Swords: What does it matter, Antonio?
- Antonio: You know me?
- [after defeating the Queen of Swords in a swordfight, Antonio pulls off her mask]
- Antonio: Tessa?
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: Antonio.
- Antonio: You mock me!
- [Antonio stalks away]
- Antonio: Is the Queen of Swords worth the gold I carry?
- Col. Luis Montoya: You are carrying one thousand reales in gold.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: [to Marta] He will not betray me.
- Col. Luis Montoya: That is twice the price we agreed to.
- Antonio: Yes, that's true, but if you want the Queen of Swords, you are in no position to argue.
- Col. Luis Montoya: I would pay ten times that to see her head on a pike in the village square.
- Antonio: Very well.
- Col. Luis Montoya: That was well done, Don Antonio. You have finally named the price for your honor.
- [Antonio throws the stolen gold to the ground]
- Antonio: I cannot sell something I have already lost.