- Nathan Rothschild: I lost the bid on a technicality.
- Hannah Rothschild: A technicality?
- Nathan Rothschild: Because I'm a Jew.
- Nathan Rothschild: We require an agreement, a treaty, signed and guaranteed by your governments giving to our people absolute freedom. In this agreement, they would lose their chains, they would have the right to follow any trade, to own land, to live with respect, and... remember what our father said mama... to walk the world with dignity.
- Prince Metternich: Speaking for myself, I admit I come as a penitent. We've not always treated you fairly, Nathan, and now - frankly - we need you.
- Duke of Wellington: Why wasn't Rothschild here?
- Herries: There was some feeling...
- Duke of Wellington: Wasn't he asked?
- Herries: Well, Your Grace, some of these people...
- Duke of Wellington: Wasn't the man who paid for these dashed wars important enough?
- Duke of Wellington: Everybody knows that, and respects you for it.
- Mayer Rothschild: No, Your Grace, they don't know it and they don't respect us. Other bankers are jealous of us, the man in the street thinks we're just Shylocks and Europe hides its head for shame, because it borrows from the Jews.
- Duke of Wellington: I suppose you know it's that Prussian fellow , Count Ledratz, who is responsible for that rot?
- Mayer Rothschild: I know - he hates me and all my race.
- Duke of Wellington: He's a proper jackass, Rothschild, and he ought to be hanged.