“- Lt. Peter Handcock: What's a pagan?
- Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant: Well... it's somebody who doesn't believe there's a divine being dispensing justice to mankind.
- Lt. Peter Handcock: I'm a pagan, too.”
Bryan Brown - Lt. Peter Handcock
Edward Woodward - Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant

“- Mrs. Van Schuyler: How would a little trip down the Nile suit you?
- Miss Bowers: There is nothing I would dislike more. There are two things in the world I can't abide: it's heat and heathens.
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Good. Then we'll go. Bowers, pack.”
Bette Davis - Mrs. Van Schuyler
Maggie Smith - Miss Bowers

“- Laforgue: When I die, Chomina, I will go to paradise. Let me baptise you so I may take you with me.
- Chomina: Why would I go to your paradise? Are my people there? My woman? My boy?”
Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue
August Schellenberg - Chomina

“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.”
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery

“My daddy always used to say there was a separate god for children.”
Mary-Louise Parker - Ruth Jamison