- Murray Logan: "Why should we listen to the Oracles of Apollo and to the screaming of the birds above our heads? For they would have it that I am doomed to kill my father."
- Christine Bonner: [claps] Dr. Arraman. Bravo!
- Murray Logan: Hello. How long have you been there?
- Dr. Arraman: I've heard Oedipus many times. But, never in the way I did just now. It's not every day that one sees an English intellectual, performing Greek tragedy, translated by an Irish poet.
- [first lines]
- Black Chauffeur: Excuse the horn; but, Mr. Sam likes to know when guests arrive.
- Christine Bonner: Will you tell Sam what I've told you; that he's driven me away with his never-ending goodness and care.
- Murray Logan: If you did leave... what would you do?
- Christine Bonner: I don't know. I'd lead my own life. It might be short; but, it would be a life.
- Christine Bonner: I don't know anything about you; except, what Sam's told me.
- Murray Logan: What did Sam tell you?
- Christine Bonner: How much everyone liked you. That you're regarded as the conscience of Atlantic House. That you used to write and had a novel published at twenty-four.
- Murray Logan: Twenty-five, actually. It was Wuthering Heights in the Aegean. Pretty bad. The trouble was, at the time, I didn't know anything about love or desperation.
- Murray Logan: After a time, one learns not to feel, to retreat. You find a way to go on living.
- Christine Bonner: Is that enough - just to go on living?
- Murray Logan: Don't make a scene just because Lily's asked you to a party.
- Sybil Logan: I'm not making a scene. It's just that I can do very well without her arty, smarty parties, thank you. I've done without them for the past 12 years. Who does she think she is? And that dreary husband of hers...
- Murray Logan: I met Sybil when I first got back from Greece. I'd come back because my book was being published and I didn't expect to stay longer than a few weeks. My affair with Sybil began casually and then, before I knew it, I was caught up in a violent, hungry way. We were married when she was three months pregnant.
- Christine Bonner: I hope you don't mind, my calling you Sybil.
- Sybil Logan: Why should I?
- Christine Bonner: Murray and I already call each other by our first names. It doesn't take long in America.
- Sybil Logan: No, nothing does, I'm told.
- Christine Bonner: Sybil, look at this.
- Sybil Logan: Oh, let me enjoy my thriller. I'm at a very sexy page.
- Sybil Logan: Tell me, did you notice that look the man on the plane gave me? I don't mean your dreary Arab friend. It wasn't my face he was looking at.
- Murray Logan: In this part of the world, that kind of look is considered a compliment.
- Sybil Logan: Well, I don't like it.
- Sybil Logan: I must say, it's all very peculiar. In more ways than one.
- Murray Logan: What the hell are you talking about.
- Sybil Logan: It's all right if she's in love with you; but, you'd be an idiot to fall in love with her.
- Sybil Logan: There you are! I've been looking all over the place for you.
- Murray Logan: We lost you for a moment.
- Sybil Logan: It's absolutely dreadful! They just stand there, gazing at you and picking their teeth.
- Murray Logan: Come on.
- Sybil Logan: Leaving me alone with a bunch of manic depressives.
- Sybil Logan: Murray, I'm not very hungry.
- Murray Logan: Sybil, we arranged this...
- Christine Bonner: Sybil, please - it's nice by the water.
- Sybil Logan: I'm going back to the hotel. I'm not romantic - like you and Christine. I'm sick of smells and art and crowds. Any objections?
- Murray Logan: How long do you think we can go on like this? Is it possible? Feeling about you, the way I do. I've said it.
- Christine Bonner: We both said it - from the beginning.
- Sybil Logan: I'm leaving you, my angel. I'm off to the Riviera, with Leonard Groves, just in case you're interested. And for your information, he doesn't care a damn about my scars. He says anyone can see I'm still a beauty. He says I've got the best figure he's ever seen. Says I've got to stop being sensitive about myself and no nonsense. He's from Birmingham. He sells electrical equipment all over Europe. So, nobody needs to feel sorry for me, any more. Not you, nor Lily Kendrick or your sick little friend across the hall. Well, what's the matter? Cat's got your tongue?
- Christine Bonner: Why is it that every place we see, seems to be the most beautiful? Or, is is it just my imagination?
- Murray Logan: A little of both. It is the most beautiful - if you chose to see it that way.
- Dr. Arraman: The most celebrated of Greek maxims was inscribed there. "Know Thyself." If only one could.
- Murray Logan: [toasting] What to now?
- Christine Bonner: To - to the end of our journey - the happy end.