- Water Witch: [in the Blue Grotto Bar, the Water Witch says to Mora that she is going to meet her people -- the Sea People! translated from Greek into English] "Soon you will encounter your people, my dear! Oh, yes, we will be meeting again very soon!"
- [no wonder Mora was so upset by what she said!]
- Mora: Yes, I love the sea most of all. But I'm afraid of it, too.
- Johnny Drake: I guess we're all a little afraid of what we love.
- Capt. Samuel Murdock: [to Johnny, upon draining the last of his bottle of gin] I wonder if you'd be good enough to get another bottle of this splendid liquid from the cabinet over there, would you?
- Johnny Drake: [giving him another bottle] You hit that stuff pretty hard, huh?
- Capt. Samuel Murdock: Well, it may seem that way to your young eyes, but at my age you need a little stimulant - you'll find that out later on.
- Madame Romanovitch: Have you ever had a Tarot reading before?
- Johnny Drake: No, I've never been to a fortune teller before.
- Madame Romanovitch: Don't use that expression, "fortune teller." It sounds so vulgar. I prefer to be known as a chiromancer or clairvoyant.
- Ellen Sands: In the past two years, Mora had two boyfriends and they 're both dead now... they were both nice boys. They went with her - then suddenly, they disappeared... a few days later their bodies were found washed up onshore, drowned.
- Mora: [to Johnny] You Americans have such a simple view of the world. You think that everything can be seen and touched and weighed and measured... You think you discovered reality, but you don't even know what it is.
- Mora: Because I feel the seawater in my veins. Because I listen to the roar of the sea and it speaks to me like a mother's voice. The tide pulls at my heart. And the face of the moon fills my soul with a strange longing.
- Capt. Samuel Murdock: And how are you today, Bruno?
- Bruno: [a masseur] Ok, Cap'n; you want me to pound you later?
- Capt. Samuel Murdock: Now, am I likely to forego a pleasure like that?