- Markov: Life is as brief as a butterfly's fart, but death is something that you have forever. From now on, you will march until you drop, and when you have dropped, you will crawl. Some may consider that I am excessively cruel, but there is a reason for this cruelty: I enjoy it!
- [12 year-old Beau and Digby discussing a Viking Funeral]
- 12 year-old Beau: Digby, will you set fire to me and bury me at sea?
- 12 year-old Beau: Well, alright. But not until you're dead.
- Dr. Crippen: I bear both good tidings and bad tidings. First, your wife is dead.
- Sir Hector: And the bad tidings?
- [Facing a firing squad]
- Digby Geste: You expect me to talk when all I could preserve is my own measly, worthless life? TOO BLOODY RIGHT, I'LL TALK! I'll talk, I'll talk, just try and stop me!
- [bidding farewell to departing soldiers]
- General Pecheur: May God go with you. *I* have better things to do.
- Beau Geste (age 12): A Viking funeral... Digby, will you set fire to me and bury me at sea?
- Digby Geste (age 12): Well, alright... but not until you're dead.