- Warden Barrot: Do you think a person knows when he's going mad? Or do you think it's blissful ignorance?
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): If your wife was here you were in Paris with all that money, how much would you pay to get her back?
- Louis Dega: Everything I have.
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): How much would she pay for you?
- Louis Dega: You're a real optimist.
- Louis Dega: I know what you're thinking. But even if you survive the fall, you'll never survive the ocean.
- Warden Barrot: I know many of you at this very moment are thinking about escape. Feel free to try whenever you like. We'll be happy to shoot you.
- Warden Barrot: You'll be transferred to the island of Saint-Joseph, where you'll serve a two-year sentence in solitary confinement. It's not rehabilitation. We know that's useless. So, we do our best to break you.
- Maturette: I'm not a goddamn whore.
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): That's not what I want.
- Maturette: Yeah, everybody says that until they do.
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): Trust me, I don't. I got a different proposition.
- Warden Barrot: Strange things happen there. Especially to those who cling to hope. Because there is no hope on Saint-Joseph. Just silence.
- Louis Dega: As you predicted, my appeal's run into some problems. But my wife's doing very well. She recently married my lawyer.
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): Well, to hell with her then.
- Warden Barrot: I had to come and see this for myself. Few men survive five years in solitary. What were you living for? 'Cause I don't think you're going to find it where you're going. Devils Island.
- Louis Dega: I'm not sure we can trust him. Look at him. He's unpredictable. He's like a caged animal.
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): We're all animals in here, pal.
- Louis Dega: I'm sorry. I may have prematurely judged you with an unworthy degree of suspicion.
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): Well, don't propose yet.
- Maturette: Papi, we made it! Papi, it's paradise here.
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): Yeah, but it's not home.
- Louis Dega: What are you talking about?
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): What do you think I'm talking about?
- Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): Let's go have some fun. Let's turn that frown upside down. I know you want to have some fun.