- John the Baptist: Don't be tempted to worship the golden calf or you'll suffer my wrath.
- Oscar Wilde: No sermons, please, Bosey. I'm not in the mood for the missionary position just now.
- John the Baptist: People are beginning to talk.
- Oscar Wilde: There is only one thing worse than to be talked about, and that is not to be talked about.
- Herod: Now take your ease and imagine yourself on a moonlit terrace in the palace of bad King Herod, on a balmy summer's night, some 20 years or so after the birth of Jesus Christ. And what our production lacks in stagecraft, we hope to make up for in enthusiasm. And any shortcomings in design I know will be compensated for by your fertile imagination.
- Pageboy: The gods of my country love blood! Twice a year we sacrifice youths and virgins to 'em - 50 youths and 100 virgins. But it seems we never give 'em enough 'cause they still persecute us.
- Salome: I am Salome, daughter of Herodias, princess of Judea.
- John the Baptist: Get back, daughter of Babylon! Fall back from the Lord's chosen one! Your mother has stained the earth with the wine of her iniquities and the cries of her sins have reached the ears of God!
- Salome: Talk on, John the Baptist, your voice intoxicates me!
- Herod: What is this blood doing here? And this corpse? What is this corpse doing here? Do you think I'm like the King of Egypt, who never holds a banquet without showing a corpse to his guests?