"[about the Blue Water gem] It looks like a piece of sky that has become solid, with sunlight imprisoned in it. Cold sunlight, cold as the unhappiness it has brought so many people."

"[in a letter] Dear Dig: The Blue Water and my blue eyes go so well together that I couldn't resist taking it. I have no intention of sharing the loot, so don't follow me. Beau."

"Discipline makes the strength of armies. It is necessary that superiors obtain from their subordinates immediate obedience without murmuring. Discipline will be firm but it will also be fatherly. Officers must use psychology when dealing with men. Any questions about the regulations? I am Sgt. Markoff. I make soldiers out of scum like you, and I don't do it gently. You're the sloppiest looking lot I've ever seen. It's up to me to prevent you from becoming a disgrace to the regiment. And I will prevent that if I have to kill half of you with work. But the half that lives will be soldiers - I promise you."

"The punishment for desertion is death by the firing squad. But I'm going to be merciful. You can escape again...I insist that you escape!...[To the scouts] Drive them out where you found them. And keep them away from the oasis. [Turning back with a scowl toward the legionnaires] Any more of you want to desert? If you do, you can go now. I won't stop you. Later, you may wish you'd taken my offer, I promise you."

"The attempt at mutiny is over, my children. You bungled it so much it wasn't really a mutiny. But you'll be punished as though it were. And now, you scum! It's my turn. I'm going to give you a lesson in putting down an attempted mutiny that'll be the last thing you'll ever see. Maybe this will make you die happy. Markoff thanks you. When he's an officer and has the Legion of Honor, he'll think often of the stupid, blundering pigs that put him where he is."

"Keep shooting, you scum! You'll get a chance yet to die with your boots on!"

"[as the Arabs flee] Look at them. They come when I want them, and they go when I don't need them anymore. They're beaten, but they've put down a mutiny for me. They've given me the Legion of Honor, and they've made me an officer!"

"Beau Geste? Gallant gesture. We didn't name him wrongly, did we?"

"[propping up dead bodies] Everybody does his duty - and soon enough. Dead or alive. We'll make those Arabs think we got a thousand men. The rest of the bullets you stop won't hurt as much as that first one."

"Three against the world...brothers and soldiers all!"

"THUNDERING DRAMA!"

"Lita Chevret - Gwen"

"Bryant Washburn - Charlie Bates"

"Florence Roberts - Mrs. Henrietta Parker"

"Freeman Wood - Mr. Post"

"Mary Carr - Mrs. Brunton"

"Clara Kimball Young - Mrs. Henrietta Post"

"Robert McWade - Arthur Parker"

"Ned Sparks - Hughie Hanready"

"Mrs. Brunton: All husbands are "kept" - some with money, but most with love and devotion."

"Mrs. Henrietta Parker: Christmas gets more appalling every year."

"Yeah, what's caviar to the few is applesauce to the gander."

"Every Inch a Man--Bought Body and Soul by His Wife."

"The minute I saw him, I didn't give two hoots if he gargled his soup in the key of A Minor. That boy was made for me, and what's more, I'm going to have him."

"A battling drama of mortgaged manhood."

"You can't run around with the right crowd on 45 a week."

"Dorothy Mackaill - Dorothea "Dot" Parker Brunton"

"Joel McCrea - Richard "Dick" Brunton"

"John Good - Lt. Leopold von Kaltnegger"

"Howard Freeman - Herr Kastner"

"Erskine Sanford - Porter"

"Art Smith - John"

"Marcel Journet - Johann Stauffer"

"Louis Jourdan - Stefan Brand"

"Carol Yorke - Marie"

"Mady Christians - Frau Berndle"

"[voiceover] The course of our lives can be changed by such little things. So many passing by, each intent on his own problems. So many faces that one might easily have been lost. I know now that nothing happens by chance. Every moment is measured; every step is counted."

"[voiceover] I'd come to tell you about us, to offer you my whole life, but you didn't even remember me."

"[voiceover] Well...I...I only told him the truth...I told him I wasn't free. My poor parents, for them this was the end. For me, it was a new beginning."

"[voiceover] Now I'm alone. My head throbs and my temples are burning. Perhaps God has been kind, and I too have caught the fever. If this letter reaches you, believe this - that I love you now as I've always loved you. My life can be measured by the moments I've had with you and our child. If only you could have shared those moments, if only you could have recognized what was always yours, could have found what was never lost. If only..."

"[voiceover] I think everyone has two birthdays, the day of his physical birth and the beginning of his conscious life. Nothing is vivid or real in my memory before that day in Spring when I came home from school and found a moving van in front of our building. I wondered about our new neighbor who owned such beautiful things."

"[voiceover] Yes, I was blushing, and hard as it may be for you to realize, from that moment on I was in love with you. Quite consciously, I began to prepare myself for you. I kept my clothes neater so you wouldn't be ashamed of me. I went to dancing school. I wanted to become more graceful and learn good manners for you. And so I would know more about you and your world, I...I went to the library and studied the lives of the great musicians of the past. Though I was not able to go to your concerts, I found ways of sharing in your success."

"[voiceover] Oh, if only you could have recognized what was always yours, could have found what was never lost."

"[voiceover] You who have always lived so freely, have you any idea what life is like in a little garrison town? I was eighteen now and was expected to take my place in society."

"[about the duel] This is one engagement I have no intention of keeping. Honor is a luxury only gentlemen can afford."