- Christabel LaMotte: I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.
- [first lines]
- Randolph Ash: They say that women change. 'Tis so, but you are ever-constant in your changefulness. Like that still thread of falling river, one from source to last embrace, in the still pool ever-renewed and ever-moving on, from first to last, a myriad water-drops.
- Roland Michell: So what are we gonna do now? We gonna try to beat'em to France, or - or are we just gonna stare at each other?
- Maude: That is the question, isn't it?
- Roland Michell: Mm-hmmm
- Maude: I have another one for you.
- Roland Michell: What's that?
- Maude: What are you really doing here?
- Roland Michell: Well, I uh - I needed to see your face. I just wanted to let you know that whatever happened at Whitby, which unfortunately was not much, is not because anything that you did. Not at all. I just didn't want to jump into something. I mean, I did and I do... want to. Badly. I just didn't want to mess this up. And I just want to see -
- [clears throat]
- Roland Michell: I want to see if there's an us in you and me. Would-Would you like that?
- [Maude leans over and kisses Roland]
- Roland Michell: I'll take that as a yes.
- Maude: [the morning after they hooked up which Roland put a stop to] Okay, let's not beat the thing dead. It happened. We're both grown-ups...
- Roland Michell: Speak for yourself.
- Maude: I'd hate to see how you're like after you actually sleep with someone.
- Fergus: Mitchell's late again?
- Blackadder: ROLAND, asked for another day off, Fergus.
- Fergus: Oh, really? Where's he gone?
- Blackadder: I didn't ask, and he didn't say. He's an American for God's sake. He's probably off trafficking drugs.
- [to Roland the morning after their first night together, and first kiss]
- Maude: I can't imagine what you're like after you actually sleep with someone!
- Maude: [they are standing on rocks in a river looking at a waterfall that Maude recalls in one of Christabell's poems that describes a cave behind the waterfall. Upon sharing that with Roland, he immediately starts taking his clothes off] I know this is an awfully repressed sort of English thing to say, but what the hell are you doing?
- Roland Michell: How else are we going to find out if there's a cave?
- [Dives into the water]
- Maude: [smiling, and speaking to no one] We could ask someone.
- Roland Michell: Don't worry about me. I'm kind of a brush and flush kinda guy.
- [seeing Maude's repulsed expression]
- Roland Michell: Forget I said that.
- Maude: I'll try.
- Roland Michell: What do you charge an hour? Roughly.
- Fergus: Oh uh, I don't know, 500.
- Roland Michell: Pounds?
- Fergus: Mm.
- Roland Michell: Jesus! No wonder you have a nice hallway.
- Fergus: Thank you.
- Roland Michell: Okay, I want to buy 7 minutes of attorney-client privilege, right now.