- Sidney Reilly: How are you feeling?
- Count Massino: [With an apparent hangover] I have a head like a foot.
- Count Massino: [to Sidney after several vodkas] Meanwhile, if you would convey me to the Ministry of Marine, I should be most grateful. I mean I'm perfectly capable of walking a straight line. It's turning the corners that might prove difficult.
- Zaharov: [as he is leaving out the door] You know, you've restored my faith in human nature. Lately I had begun to doubt that every man has his price... but now I see it's just a matter of currency.
- Sidney Reilly: [Asking about Margaret] Where is she?
- Grammaticoff: At the Nevsky Street Police Station. My friend Gregor Yankov has her in custody. She asked for a bottle of gin and the British ambassador - in that order.