- Col John Wister: Are these the only socks I have?
- Wilkins - Wister's Orderly: Oh, no, Sir. You have others.
- Col John Wister: Well, where are they?
- Wilkins - Wister's Orderly: You've got them on, Sir.
- Col John Wister: There's a very thin line between a man being a coward and a hero. There's just that little something that makes him go either one way or the other.
- Sir Chas. Benton: Duffers like you and I plot our way over the horizon. Men like Hitchens rush out to meet it. And I suppose the difference is, that we know how to live and they know how to die.
- Col John Wister: That's freedom. Escape from the world entirely. To be up there with infinity to fly through and eternity to find and both of them yours for the taking.
- Julia Ashton: His luck held out. He died clean and young, before anything could grow old or dim. He was always ahead of life and finally lost it in the sunset; before they catch up with him and make him pay for all the beauty and glamour and laughter it gave him. He died - owing life.
- Julia Ashton: You know, although we're ashamed of it, every honest woman knows that her life has but one love. And, however long it lasts, its hers forever.
- Col John Wister: To whom and to what are you going back to America?
- Julia Ashton: To nothing and to none. That's why I'm going there. Instead of staying here were I've been happy. It's a little too difficult to try and build a new life from the ashes of the old.
- Col John Wister: And what do you expect of this new life? Happiness? A career?
- Julia Ashton: I haven't the talent for a career. Nor, the capacity for happiness anymore. No. All I'm looking for is contentment. The opportunity to be useful enough to justify living.
- Capt. Denny Roark: Listen.
- Julia Ashton Wister: What is it?
- Capt. Denny Roark: Bedouin music.
- Julia Ashton Wister: Strange and wistful, isn't it?
- Capt. Denny Roark: I've heard that love song a thousand times. The next time it sounds like the first.
- Julia Ashton Wister: Somehow, it seems to go with the desert and the night. Sort of a melodic will-o-the-wisp, that dares your emotions to follow it.
- Capt. Denny Roark: I don't know what it is.
- Julia Ashton Wister: I know. It's life - and the desire to live every moment! So that, if it would be your last, you could die laughing - because it owes you nothing.
- Capt. Denny Roark: Maybe that.
- Julia Ashton Wister: It is that! I know! That's a beautiful way to live. Never lose that. Never let your life live from one dawn to the other. Fly into your tomorrows!
- Grace Roark: I've learned another kind of love, from that which comes from wanting and having. A quiet kind, that watches and shares in someone's life without that someone knowing. I've watched John's career and it's made me proud. I've seen his fineness of character and its dignified my love, justified it. I've seen him in love. It hurts. But, I'm even sharing that; because, she could never love him anymore than he can love me. You can learn to love that way too.
- Capt. Denny Roark: No man could love as much as that.
- Julia Ashton Wister: I can't stay here, Denny. I can't! Respecting him. Loving you! Hating myself! It's just not possible.
- Julia Ashton Wister: Denny, it's not dangerous, is it?
- Capt. Denny Roark: If it were, you'd hear my knees rattling all over the place.
- Julia Ashton Wister: I'm frightened.
- Capt. Denny Roark: You shouldn't be. Why, if I thought there were any risks, I'd be saying all sorts of silly things to you, like - I love you.
- Julia Ashton Wister: You mustn't say that.
- Capt. Denny Roark: I won't - again.
- Capt. Denny Roark: He's not coming back.
- Julia Ashton Wister: Why'd he do it, Denny?
- Capt. Denny Roark: To give us that - another dawn.
- Opening Title Card: A remote outpost - - a long, long way from Tipperary - - where a handful of the King's best preserve a precarious peace amongst the warring natives, at the cost of much British blood spilled in the desert sand.
- Grace Roark: You haven't forgotten anything?
- Col John Wister: I swear I've packed everything. Even my heavy underwear.
- Grace Roark: Good!
- Victor Romkoff - Tobacco Tycoon: You are traveling alone, the purser told me. You must find it - not very amusing, no?
- Julia Ashton: At the present moment I find it - revolting.
- Victor Romkoff - Tobacco Tycoon: Do you? How charming. I see we understand each other.
- Mrs. Lydia Benton: Most of our guests don't seem to be happy unless they're perspiring. They're all out, batting some sort of a ball about. Take your choice: tennis, golf, polo or ping pong. If Lord Alden feels up to it?
- Lord Alden: What about some bridge?
- Col John Wister: Well, what I'd really like to do is try my hand at golf.
- Sir Chas. Benton: Do you mind being beaten by a woman?
- Col John Wister: If any woman beats me, I beat her right back!
- Julia Ashton: Three years. Three ecstatic years. In which I spent all the love I had to buy a memory so beautiful, they compensate for never being able to love again.
- Julia Ashton: What was that?
- Col John Wister: Oh, nothing. Just one of those pat Arabic phrases that fit almost anything.
- Julia Ashton: What does it mean?
- Col John Wister: It means, the hopes we have for tomorrow, die today.
- Capt. Denny Roark: It's not greed that prompts his raiding. It's the good Muslim hatred of Christians.
- Capt. Denny Roark: Why so pensive? This wind sandpapering your nerves a little?
- Julia Ashton Wister: It is a bit nagging, isn't it?
- Capt. Denny Roark: Rather. It's been known to make mutes scream. The natives call them winds of madness. They're so full of electricity that anybody's liable to blow a fuse.
- Col John Wister: If they were less honorable, there would be a solution. But, unfortunately, you can't discard honor any more than you can love.
- Capt. Denny Roark: Julia, you shouldn't be here, should you?
- Julia Ashton Wister: Its quite all right. You see, I, I've come to say goodbye. I'm leaving you and John and Dickit, forever.