"When will the lesson be learned?! When-will-the-lesson-be-learned?! How many more dictators must be wooed, appeased - Good God, given immense privileges! - before we learn?! You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!"

"Here is a woman who's always tired, for she lives a life where too much is required."

"The deadly danger here is this romantic fantasy of fighting to the end. What is "the end" if not the destruction of all things? There's nothing heroic in going down fighting if it can be avoided. Nothing even remotely patriotic in death or glory if the odds are firmly on the former. Nothing inglorious in trying to shorten a war we are clearly losing."

"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."

"Will you stop interrupting me while I am interrupting you?"

"I'm getting the job only because the ship is sinking. It's not a gift, it's revenge."

"(exiting the bathroom naked) Miss? I'm coming out in a state of nature!"

"(on the toilet) Please tell the Privy Seal that I am currently sealed in the privy and I can only deal with one shit at a time."

"You know what? I feel angry. In this moment I'm aware of feeling—bloody angry."

"This is a story of the Battle of the Atlantic, the story of an ocean, two ships and a handful of men. The men are the heroes. The heroines are the ships. The only villain is the sea—the cruel sea—that man has made more cruel."

"For us, the Battle of the Atlantic was becoming a private war. If you were in it, you knew all about it. You knew how to keep watch on filthy nights, and how to go without sleep; and how to bury the dead and how to die without wasting anyone's time."

"Carminho - Fado Singing Woman"

"Damien Bonnard - Father"

"Kate Handford - Kitty"

"Owen Good - Gerald"

"Tom Stourton - Steward"

"Jerskin Fendrix - Lisbon Restaurant Musician"

"Wayne Brett - Priest"

"Margaret Qualley - Felicity"

"Hanna Schygulla - Martha von Kurtzroc"

"Vicki Pepperdine - Mrs. Prim"

"Kathryn Hunter - Madame Swiney"

"Jerrod Carmichael - Harry Astley"

"Suzy Bemba - Toinette"

"Willem Dafoe - Dr. Godwin "God" Baxter"

"Mark Ruffalo - Duncan Wedderburn"

"Ramy Youssef - Max McCandles"

"Christopher Abbott - Alfie Blessington"

"Emma Stone - Bella Baxter / Victoria Blessington"

"Keeley Forsyth - Alison the Maid"

"Max McCandles: [About Bella] My, what a very pretty retard."

"[Mockingly to Max in a mental institution] "We're all masters of our own ships." You cunty cuntface dipshit!"

"Well at the risk of being immodest, you have just been thrice fucked by the very best. It's probable no other man will ever bring you to the raptures I will. I feel bad for you."

"Felicity: Belle. Whore."

"Madame Swiney: A woman plotting her course to freedom. How delightful."

"John Locke - David the Butler"

"I’m a changeable feast, as are all of we."

"I am finding being alive fascinating."

"This is Martha. She is my new friend who has not been fucked in twenty years! Is that not astonishment? I hope you use your hand between your legs to keep yourself happy?"

"Money is its own form of sickness."

"[to Duncan, about sex] Why do people not just do this all the time?"

"[after she kisses Max McCandless] We will need less of your tongue in the future. But overall, most agreeable."

"I am Bella Baxter. I am a flawed, experimenting person. I seek outings and adventures. Bella's so much to discover. And there is a world to enjoy, circumnavigate. It is the goal of all to improve, advance, progress, grow."

"You, like me, are a creature of freedom in the moment."

"My father once told me, "Always carve with compassion." He was a fucking idiot, but it's not bad advice."

"She's an experiment. Her brain and her body are not quite synchronized. But she is progressing at an accelerated pace."

"[Having dinner with Max] Spermatic ejaculation can only induce homeostasis in me if accompanied by prolonged stimulation of higher nerve centers whose pressure on the ductless glands changes the chemistry of my blood not for a few spasmodic minutes, but for many days. [Max responds mono-syllabically non-plussed] I am a eunuch and cannot fuck her! To get a sexual response from my body would take the same amount of electricity as runs North London. Besides, my paternal feelings seem to outweigh my sexual thoughts."

"[on the wailing infant] I must go punch that baby."