- Jonathan Lute: What are you going to do, anyway?
- Andrew Quint: I'm going to find an honest job.
- Jonathan Lute: Silly boy. There aren't any.
- Jonathan Lute: [after Quint has terrifyingly smashed up his entire office with an axe] Andrew, darling, you're always threatening to resign...
- Jonathan Lute: Andrew, look... I got the award...
- Andrew Quint: It's a bit of an awkward shape, Jonathan, but do try and put it where it belongs, do try.
- Jonathan Lute: Andrew dear, don't bite the hand that might cut your throat.
- [Often cited as the first time the word "fuck" was heard in the cinema]
- Josie: Get out of here, you fucking bastard!
- Georgina Elben: Why didn't you find a desert island somewhere?
- Andrew Quint: There aren't any. They're all radioactive.
- Andrew Quint: Everything takes longer than you think, doesn't it?
- Georgina Elben: So we'd better make it the weekend after the weekend after, then.
- Andrew Quint: No more extraneous...
- [pauses to eye a passing girl]
- Andrew Quint: attractions.
- Walter: As the pin said to the magnet.