- Mike Sadler: You're Italian. Drive like an Italian.
- Johnny Cooper: What's that mean?
- Mike Sadler: It means go on green. Accelerate on amber. Accelerate on red and honk your horn.
- Paddy Mayne: You can tell the Frenchmen that... I am gradually coming around to the notion that they might actually be good men
- David Stirling: All of our men are good men. They just have the misfortune of being led by us.
- Curly brown hair: [the French paratroopers approach] Hey sir, do you want to share our hashish?
- David Stirling: Offer it only if they ask.
- Red beard: Do we raise their flag?
- David Stirling: Their . . . Have you got it?
- Pat Riley: Yeah, I made one. I bought some colored bed sheets in a brothel in Cairo.
- Curly brown hair: Visiting your mother, was you, Riley?
- David Stirling: Well if you made one, raise it.
- Red beard: [Riley carries the flag to the flag pole] I thought the French flag was white.