- Mrs. Winslow: How can you be so disrespectful of your father's memory?
- Harriet Winslow: I'm not being disrespectful, Mother. I'm being honest. From now on, I'm gonna be honest with my father's memory.
- Gen. Tomas Arroyo: Do you want to drink with me?
- Ambrose Bierce: I thought you didn't drink.
- Gen. Tomas Arroyo: Oh, I don't drink with the living. But tonight I come to visit the dead, to celebrate with them. Do you visit your dead ones, amigo?
- Ambrose Bierce: No, but sometimes they come to visit me.
- Ambrose Bierce: It isn't easy at my age to bring together the opportunity, the desire and the energy.
- La Garduna: When gentlemen start talking about principles, we poor people lose what we don't even have!