- Master Yuan: A smile ushers in the spring.
- Master Yuan: A tear does darken all the world.
- Master Yuan: How truly does this befit you. To you... only you are possessed of such charm.
- Master Yuan: In this world, there is foulness in both men and women. Only the bodhisattva embodies both male and female essences. Such ecstasy!
- Master Yuan: Master Duan... when the king returns to camp and meets Concubine Yu... custom has it...
- Duan Xiaolou (segment "Shitou"): Yes, Master Yuan?
- Master Yuan: Custom has it he takes seven steps. You take but five.
- Master Guan: If you belong to the human race, you go to the opera. If you don't go to the opera, you're not a human being. Pigs and dogs don't listen to opera. And are they human? They're beasts! And where there's opera, there's work for us actors!