- Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake: You see, I, I'm, you know I'm not a rich man. But what I cannot offer you in wealth and luxury, I, Miss Rose, I offer you my whole heart, for always. For when I look upon you, I feel a mercy I thought lost to me. And I would work as hard as any man is able and harder to provide every day for your happiness and to be a better man, if you would, that is to say if, if you might consider doing me the utmost honor of being at my side.
- Madoc Faulkner: [his last words] The Egyptians were fools. How can any god presume to know the weight of one man's heart?
- Madoc Faulkner: Do it.
- Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake: I cannot, Colonel.
- Madoc Faulkner: An order, Sergeant!
- Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake: I am not your Sergeant anymore.
- Madoc Faulkner: And Inspector, when you return to your home this eve, give thanks to your god you will never set eyes upon the things I have witnessed. The bravest of men butchered like pigs. Sons and brothers in their hundreds left for carrion. Dirt beetles crawling at feast in their torn hollows... and all for queen and country.
- Det. Insp. Edmund Reid: Jackson, when I send for you, you will come! Or else I'll...
- Cpt. Homer Jackson: Yes, I know, you're gonna do a thing, lock me in a place, drop me on my so forth and what have you, right?
- Cpt. Homer Jackson: Look, Drake, I know that we've had our differences, but I know I've been thinking, and, well, whatta yuh we bury the hatchet, huh? Because from where I'm standin' me and you seem like two fellas with plenty in common.
- Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake: We have nothing in common.
- Cpt. Homer Jackson: Men who walk through the fire never shed the heat, Sergeant. They see in each other the burns that other people don't.
- Det. Insp. Edmund Reid: [inquiring why Drake wants a raise] Bennet, may I ask, does this request come from Rose?
- Det. Insp. Edmund Reid: [after Drake is silent] Your interest in the girl hasn't escaped me.
- Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake: I, uh... I don't think I take your meanin'.
- Det. Insp. Edmund Reid: Heh, Bennet...
- Det. Insp. Edmund Reid: [He chuckles] A bobtail like that will look you deep in the eye only so long as she's deep in your pocket.
- Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake: No, she's not... You don't know her.
- Det. Insp. Edmund Reid: All my yeas of policing I have known her kind plenty as have you. I am - I am simply saying... beware the kitten's claws.
- Cpt. Homer Jackson: [while in bed with Rose under the sheets] Is this not the most honest face you have ever sat on?
- Cpt. Homer Jackson: [talking about Rose's involvement with with Drake] It's going to end badly.
- Rose Erskine: Why do you say that?
- Cpt. Homer Jackson: Jesus Christ, what doesn't?