- Li Mu Bai: I've already wasted my whole life. I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you. I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit.
- Li Mu Bai: No growth without assistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. Now give yourself up and find yourself again.
- Li Mu Bai: The things we touch have no permanence. My master would say: there is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
- Li Mu Bai: I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul than enter heaven without you... because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit
- Li Mu Bai: [to Yu Shu Lien] Crouching tigers and hidden dragons are in the underworld... but so are human feelings.
- Jen Yu: [while slicing through customers at a local restaurant] You want to know who I am? I am... I am the Invincible Sword Goddess, armed with the Green Destiny that knows no equal! Be you Li or Southern Crane, bow your head and ask for mercy! I am the dragon from the desert! Who comes from nowhere and leaves no trace! Today I fly over Eu-Mei. Tomorrow... I topple Mount Wudan!
- Yu Shu Lien: You were enlightened?
- Li Mu Bai: No. I didn't feel the bliss of enlightenment. Instead... I was surrounded by an endless sorrow.
- Lo: We have a legend. Anyone who dares to jump from the mountain, God will grant his wish. Long ago, a young man's parents were ill, so he jumped. He didn't die. He wasn't even hurt. He floated away, far away, never to return. He knew his wish had come true. If you believe, it will happen. The elders say, "A faithful heart makes wishes come true."
- Jade Fox: You deserve to die, but the life I was hoping to take was Jen's. Ten years I devoted to you, but you deceived me! You hid the manual's true meaning. I never improved but your progress was limitless. You know what poison is? An eight year-old girl full of deceit. That's poison!
- Yu Shu Lien: It's a great fortune to marry into such a noble family.
- Jen Yu: Is it? Actually, I like the great heroes in the books... just like you and Li Mu Bai. Marriage is a good thing. If only I could be free to live my own life... to choose who I love and love him in my own way. That's real happiness.
- Li Mu Bai: She should come to Wudan and become a disciple.
- Yu Shu Lien: But Wudan does not accept women.
- Li Mu Bai: For her, they might make an exception. If not, I'm afraid she'll become a poisoned dragon.
- [commenting on the theft of the Green Destiny sword once again]
- Sir Te: They take it, they return it, they take it again... this place is becoming everyone's private storeroom!
- Jen Yu: Who are you?
- Gou Jun Pei: I'm Shining Phoenix Mountain Gou.
- Jen Yu: Gou? A name I abhor. When I hear it, my ears start to ache. I feel like vomiting!
- [Rising from the table]
- Jen Yu: And suddenly I cannot hold back my sword hand's anger!
- Li Mu Bai: You need practice. I can teach you to fight with the Green Destiny, but first you must learn to hold it in stillness.
- Jen Yu: Why do you want to teach me?
- Li Mu Bai: I've always wanted a disciple worthy of Wudan's secrets.
- Jen Yu: And if I use them to kill you?
- Li Mu Bai: That's a risk I'm willing to take. Deep down you're good. Even Jade Fox couldn't corrupt you.
- Sir Te: When in comes to the affairs of the heart, even the greatest warriors can be a consummate idiots.
- Yu Shu Lien: The Green Destiny Sword. You're giving it to Sir Te.
- Li Mu Bai: I am. He has always been our greatest protector.
- Yu Shu Lien: I don't understand. How can you part with it? It's been with you a long time.
- Li Mu Bai: Too many men have died at its edge. It may look pure... , but only because blood washes so easily from its blade.
- Jen Yu: I'm getting married soon, but I haven't lived the life I want.
- Yu Shu Lien: So I heard. Congratulations.
- Jen Yu: It must exciting to be a fighter, to be totally free.
- Yu Shu Lien: Fighters have rules, too. Friendship, trust, integrity. Always keep your promise. Without rules we wouldn't survive long.
- Li Mu Bai: Even if I was banished to the darkest place, my love will never let me be a lonely spirit.
- [first lines]
- Man: Master Li is here! Master Li is here!
- Yu Shu Lien: [to the Sword Thief] Return the sword and I'll let you go.
- [pause]
- Yu Shu Lien: You've been trained at Wudan?
- Fung Machete Chang: We politely asked for a friendly match, but she showed no respect, and attacked us.
- Yu Shu Lien: You're doing calligraphy?
- Jen Yu: I'll write your name. Just for fun.
- Yu Shu Lien: I never realized my name looks like 'sword'. You write gracefully. Calligraphy is similar to fencing.
- Jen Yu: Maybe it is. I wouldn't know.
- Gangster A: You don't seem to understand.
- Jen Yu: So what if I don't?
- Gangster B: [raising weapons along with his partner] We have ways of making you understand...
- Li Mu Bai: You did your job well. The sword is back. But... This girl. I saw her last night.
- Yu Shu Lien: I knew you'd be suspicious.
- Li Mu Bai: She needs controlling. She needs real direction and training.
- Jade Fox: Your master underestimated women! I was good enough to sleep with, but not to teach. What better punishment than to die by a woman's hand?
- Yu Shu Lien: [to Mrs. Yu] This particular thief... is very unusual. And most likely smarter than a mere killer.