- Rev. Philip Bathwick: [Objecting to Effie's viewing the corpse] She goes in there over my dead body!
- Albert Campion: I think two dead bodies are quite enough for the time being.
- Albert Campion: [reading from a letter] "He waiteth patiently. Peace and hope are in his warm heart. He foldeth his hands upon his belly. Faith is his that can remove the mountain or his little hill. "
- Albert Campion: [reciting a line of poetry from George Herbert's "The Temple"] Death is still working like a mole and digs my grave at each remove.
- Sir Leo Pursuivant: Chap was already dead. What's the point of dumping him in the river?
- Magersfontein Lugg: That's what I say!
- Albert Campion: Water has a peculiar quality, hasn't it? It washes things.