- Orlando: Pum pum? The mountain's mouth? But it's a volcano's mouth. We're sitting on a volcano's mouth. Now I understood the metaphor! A tragedy.
- Sir Reginald J. Dongby: [when asked about the Grand Duke's age] Judging by his political competence, I'd say he's 8 years-old.
- Sir Reginald J. Dongby: Well, the Hindus around Bombay say, even though I don't know if it's true or not, that if you look a tiger straight in the eyes she won't attack you.
- Sir Reginald's Secretary: Is that possible, Sir Reginald?
- Sir Reginald J. Dongby: What?
- Sir Reginald's Secretary: I asked if it's easy to do.
- Sir Reginald J. Dongby: No, quite the contrary. It's the hardest thing on earth, especially if the tiger looks at you straight in the eye.
- Primo maestro Rubetti: On one side the cold moon... On the other the sun's heat. Absolutely beautiful. Between light and darkness, and fire and ice, there you are, Ildebranda.
- Ildebranda Cuffari: Thank you. How poetic.
- La Principessa Lherimia: [Orchestra plays a Strauss' waltz] Light blue. Light blue and white. Ultramarine blue. Light blue. Ultramarine blue. Emerald green. Green. Light blue.
- Il Granduca: The music makes her see a rainbow.
- La Principessa Lherimia: White, white, white.
- Il Granduca: My sister says that each note has its own color.
- Orlando: This is the funny thing abut sea voyages. After a few days, you feel as if you'd been sailing forever. You feel you've always known your fellow voyagers.
- Padre di Dorotea: Look at these colors, darling. Every sunset bearing a stamp of divinity! You know, Mr. Orlando, I spend all Saturday painting. I don't know what I'd give to paint such a picture. But how can we compete with the Creator?
- Il capitano: They are shepherds, peasants, gypsies. We rescued them at sea tonight. There are also students, maybe unjustly chased by the police.
- Ricotin: Captain, no one can force us to travel with these people who come God knows from where.
- Il capitano: Their rafts were sinking due to the great weight. To rescue these women, children, these families in despair, was a duty I could not forego.
- Eugenio: The object of this dance is to befriend the elemental spirits who control the growth of the seeds.
- Orlando: He's an Egyptian. They say he was our great artist's lover. He owns all the railways in his country. It seems his penis is enormous, violet colored. That's something I heard, of course.
- Orlando: Spezia! Born in indomitable Spezia, Captain Leonardo De Robertis.
- Il capitano: It's the other way round, Roberto De Leonardis.
- Orlando: What did I say?
- Il capitano: Roberto De Leonardis!
- Orlando: Ah, here he is! He hasn't found her. There are strange rumors about our baron and his gentle wife. Did you see it too? Really upset. Upset and longing, what?
- Sir Reginald J. Dongby: You whore! Your amazing. Say it with your little voice. "Yes, Reginald, I'm a great whore!"
- Sir Reginald J. Dongby: Why? Why do you treat me like that? Yes, I've earned it. Do it, do anything you like! You have needs, you're a queen, my child, my boss. Please, Violet, do it, always, do it like this, more, more.
- Il Conte di Bassano: So many definitions, so many words. They've written so many stories about you. But no one said who you really were.
- Orlando: I deny that he was ever in love with her. Perhaps he's in love with her, since her death. An ambiguous guy! Really ambiguous!
- Aureliano Fuciletto: When I'm in love I feel stronger, get fatter, become twice as big. Love is healthy!
- Ricotin's Dining Guest: You're here to advertise my film, nothing else!
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