- Annie Desmond: [telling Muriel to put on her life jacket] Just... Just put it on and come with me.
- Muriel Batley: No. I have to get my jewels first.
- John Batley: Never mind that.
- Muriel Batley: I'm not giving them up. What else have I got to show for the last 20 years?
- John Batley: It was kind of Lord Manton to invite us.
- Muriel Batley: And we know why he was so kind.
- John Batley: He wanted to show his gratitude to someone who has worked for him with duty and discretion.
- Muriel Batley: [laughing] Well, discretion I grant you.
- John Batley: What are you talking about?
- Muriel Batley: About a young lady in leafy Dulwich who doesn't know that she's the bastard daughter of the Earl of Manton, thanks to the ever-so-discreet John Batley, Esquire.
- John Batley: Have you been reading my papers?
- Muriel Batley: No. The birds told me. Of course I read your papers. Very dull they are, too, most of them.
- John Batley: You shouldn't have done that.
- Muriel Batley: What should I have done? Locked in a boring house on a boring street in a boring suburb of a city I hate. What would you suggest I do?
- Muriel Batley: Well, let's just hope there was no one we know in the saloon. Because I wouldn't want any witnesses to that exhibition of groveling. I'm surprised you have any stomach left after crawling on it for most of the afternoon.
- Grace Rushton: It just seems wrong that second class and servants and steerage are all to worship with us. I think I may go back to the cabin.
- Joseph Rushton: But the captain would be so disappointed if you weren't here.
- [Hugh laughs]
- Louisa, Countess of Manton: You can laugh. But it is odd of them to fling us all in together, hugger-mugger. Half of them look suspiciously like Catholics.
- Hugh, Earl of Manton: I don't imagine Jesus minds one bit.
- Captain Smith: And Mrs. Batley... Did she have a good time?
- John Batley: It is hard for Mrs. Batley to have a good time.
- Mary Maloney: How are your plans going? For when we get to New York.
- Jim Maloney: Whatever turns up, it's bound to be better than Belfast.
- Mary Maloney: It hasn't been so terrible.
- Jim Maloney: There's no career for a Catholic in Belfast, Mary. There might be a job in New York. I have to weigh a doubt against a certainty.
- Muriel Batley: Why is it so hard for you to understand that I want to feel, just once... just once... that my life is worth living? That it matters that I was born. That a part, a speck of my existence has some... tiny, infinitesimal value.
- John Batley: It has value to me.
- Second Officer Lightoller: Well, everyone has a right to cross the Atlantic.
- Grace Rushton: But not in first class!
- Annie Desmond: First-class servants are an odd bunch. Grander than their masters and touchy as a king in exile.
- Thomas Andrews: How a man like that gets to be head of the White Star Line is a mystery to me.
- Lord Pirrie: Not an impenetrable one. His father owned the company.
- Jim Maloney: There's no future for a Catholic in Belfast. If I had any sense, I'd be on this ship on the way to America.
- Annie Desmond: As soon as you're ready, make your way to the second-class section of the boat deck.
- Muriel Batley: Of course. Let's make sure even our drowning is second class.
- John Batley: Are we allowed in? We're only second class.
- Second Officer Lightoller: Everyone is welcome at the service.
- Muriel Batley: What do you mean 'only'? I am not 'only' anything.
- Captain Smith: Life is a risk every day that passes. The truth is, man might sink us, even if nature can't.
- John Batley: That's clever of you, Captain, to recognize me.
- Captain Smith: It's my job.
- John Batley: I never think of myself as particularly memorable.
- Muriel Batley: I'll tell you what I don't want. I don't want to have to pay court to my Lady of Manton, who thinks she's so far above us when she's got the brains of a kipper and the charisma of an egg.
- Chief Steward Lattimer: Did I actually see you wink at Lady Georgiana Grex?
- Paolo Sandrini: She's very pretty.
- Chief Steward Lattimer: Pretty? Pretty? Have you any idea how offensive that is?
- Paolo Sandrini: I don't think she was offended. She smiled.
- Chief Steward Lattimer: Silence! One more incident like this, Sandrini, and you'll stay in your cabin for the rest of the voyage. You will also forfeit your pay. Do you understand?
- Paolo Sandrini: Yes, sir.
- Chief Steward Lattimer: Now get back to work.
- Louisa, Countess of Manton: What a stroke of luck.
- Muriel Batley: As if you needed luck, you patronizing bitch!
- John Batley: Put on your life jacket.
- Annie Desmond: No. I don't like to.
- John Batley: If you don't wear one, men like me might think they don't have to.
- Annie Desmond: What do you mean, 'men like you'?
- John Batley: Men who can't face reality.
- Dorothy Gibson: Mother, please!
- Mrs. Gibson: I can't! I just can't! That's all there is to it, and I'm staying right here!
- Second Officer Lightoller: Can I help? Can I help?
- Dorothy Gibson: Yes. My mother won't wear her life vest.
- Mrs. Gibson: And I won't get on a boat.
- Second Officer Lightoller: Now, Mrs. Gibson. You want to help Dorothy, don't you? She won't leave without you, so for her to be safe, then you must be safe.
- Hugh, Earl of Manton: Will you shut up!
- Muriel Batley: I will not shut up for a dirty philanderer like you! Oh, yes. Quite the big nobleman now, aren't you? What about your grubby little secrets in Dulwich?
- John Batley: Come away, you foolish, foolish woman! Are you pleased with yourself? So now, even if we do survive, I won't have a job to come home to?
- Muriel Batley: Oh, stop whining.
- Second Officer Lightoller: [handing Dorothy Gibson a bottle of brandy] Here. Take this.
- Dorothy Gibson: I can't carry a bottle of brandy.
- Second Officer Lightoller: There may be others on the boat who will need it. Especially if you pull anyone in from the sea.
- Muriel Batley: No more gracious put-downs. I am not in the mood. You think you're so smart, so fine, so aristocratic. You are pathetic, stupid, and ignorant.
- Second Officer Lightoller: Do I have your permission?
- Captain Smith: I don't understand.
- Second Officer Lightoller: We must begin to load, sir! Mr. Wilde?
- Chief Officer Wilde: I think we should wait to hear what the captain has to say.
- Second Officer Lightoller: Right, sir. I'll take that as an order to lower the boats.
- Fourth Officer Boxhall: Are these ladies first class?
- Annie Desmond: No, sir.
- Fourth Officer Boxhall: We are only loading the ladies from first class.
- Paolo Sandrini: Is there ice in your veins?
- First Officer Murdoch: What's the trouble here?
- Annie Desmond: We're trying to help the ladies, sir.
- Fourth Officer Boxhall: They're second class and ought to be on the boat deck, sir.
- First Officer Murdoch: Just help them and be done with it.
- Hugh, Earl of Manton: Batley! Over here! Come and take control of your wife!
- Muriel Batley: Take control? How dare you, you arrogant pig!
- Muriel Batley: Well, let's be friends now. Let's put all our regrets behind us and... and die at peace with one another. Please, John.
- John Batley: Regrets? How could I have any regrets when marrying you was the most exciting... the only exciting thing I've ever done? How... How could I regret that?
- Muriel Batley: I was nice when you married me, wasn't I? I wonder what happened to that nice, reasonable woman. When did she... When did she go away?