- Midshipman Young: I wonder how much longer it'll be before those black dogs put a knife in our backs?
- Fletcher Christian: I care not if it be tonight. Death would be a release from the remorse which dogs my footsteps day and night, night and day.
- Fletcher Christian: Sir, as an officer I caution you. As a man I ask you to bear more with the men. Six months was too long on Tahiti. Your sailors have left their hearts there, at the cost of their reason.