- Monk: [Upon meeting Parmalee, who has just ascended to the Meteora Monastery via a hand-operated "elevator"] Welcome to Meteora.
- Victor Parmalee: May I ask, who carries your insurance?
- Monk: We put our trust in the Almighty.
- Victor Parmalee: A very safe company.
- Dr. James 'Jim' Calder: May I remind you of Paragraph 9 of the Penal Code of Greece:
- [reading from a book]
- Dr. James 'Jim' Calder: "Any and all objects of a historical value cannot under any circumstances be removed from Greek territory or territorial waters. They...
- Victor Parmalee: [quoting by memory] ... they are to be considered the property of the Greek nation." Yes, Jim, I know all about Greek Paragraph 9. *I'm* the reason they wrote it!
- Phaedra: He's important man, Mr. Calder, huh?
- Victor Parmalee: In his pedestrian way. "Incorruptible Jim," I call him.
- Phaedra: You know him a long time?
- Victor Parmalee: Our paths have crossed and re-crossed: in Dresden, Rotterdam, Florence - wherever the Nazis looted. Raphaels, Rembrandts, even down to a dreary little china pot, which belonged to Madame Pompadour... there was always Captain Jim Calder of the U.S. Army, restoring priceless objects to their rightful owners - a typical middle-class gesture.
- Dr. Hawkins: [Suddenly realizing that he's going to receive a smaller share of the treasure than originally thought] Well, there's an old Greek proverb, that says a third of something is better than half of nothing.
- Victor Parmalee: You'll dive with Calder - dive all over the Aegean Sea. Except in one spot: the spot with the boy on a dolphin.
- Phaedra: But sir...
- Victor Parmalee: [Cutting her off] Dive until he runs out of patience, runs out of ambition, out of money, oxygen, and hope!
- Phaedra: [Tapping her finger to her temple] Oh, Mr. Parmalee, you have plenty of noodle, you know?
- Victor Parmalee: Thank you.
- Phaedra: Now, we all have wine!
- Dr. Hawkins: Do you know where I've been for the past 24 hours?
- Phaedra: Giving a laxative to the baker?
- Phaedra: I went to see French. The man there - he pinched me. The English say they have enough troubles. The Italians say they have enough statues.
- Victor Parmalee: Fall on your knees before it, child, and remember the Jockey boy of Artemision is 2100 years older than you are and infinitely more sublime.
- Phaedra: Mister, you're rich American?
- Victor Parmalee: A relevant question and a decidedly impertinent one. You may leave me alone now. Shoo!
- Phaedra: You shoo.
- Dr. James 'Jim' Calder: What do you expect? Every thief and crook in Europe is in hijacking the great works of Greece to fill the museums of the rest of the world.
- Victor Parmalee: Well, I'm glad to find out that Jim has finally turned to something more earthy.
- Phaedra: Eh?
- Victor Parmalee: He has a date with a pretty girl instead of a marble bust.
- Victor Parmalee: A secret?
- Phaedra: It's not a secret!
- Victor Parmalee: I never pry. There's nothing more becoming than a woman with a secret.
- Victor Parmalee: For a practical man, Jim, you waste your time in an awful lot of nonsense. I like that about you.
- Dr. James 'Jim' Calder: You meet me at the Taverna and if you're a real good girl, I'll buy you a drink.
- Dr. James 'Jim' Calder: I hate to see you go to jail, Victor.
- Victor Parmalee: As sentimentality is still your most enduring weakness, Jim, keep it up.
- Victor Parmalee: It's money. I presume you've heard of money. Don't try and be noble and turn it down. There's nothing as noble as money.
- Rhif: Remember, tonight when you dance for Calder, you dance with your feet and your head. Not with your heart!
- Dr. James 'Jim' Calder: I threw away the only thing that mattered for something that will never matter.
- Dr. James 'Jim' Calder: It worked out well, didn't it? You smile, you dance, I watch. Rhif meets Parmalee. You've got a nice smile, Phaedra. You dance well. Just thought I'd tell you that. Don't ask me to shake your hand. It's too dirty!
- Phaedra: And your hand, Dr. Calder? When you dig in earth, it's never dirty because - because you don't have to dig. You're a famous archaeologic man. You do not shine shoes or work in a windmill - or dive for sponges and break your lungs. You are an American. And if you had found the statue, you would have taken glory. Yes! But, not change Niko's life or Raif's or Dr. Hawkins' life by one piece of bread!
- Phaedra: Jim, I'm sorry for this morning, for now; but, I will never be sorry for last night. So, what will you do? What will I do?