- Matthew Reed: You're a troublemaker, Gordon!
- Michael Gordon: That's what Herr Goebbels said about me once. I was deeply flattered.
- William Chalmers: What is this, the Middle Ages?
- Michael Gordon: No, the Middle East, but it sometimes comes to the same thing.
- Prefect of Police: [referring to the murder of Chalmers] Obviously a crime of passion.
- Michael Gordon: [Sarcastically] With a tinge of politics perhaps.
- Michael Gordon: [to Yvonne] The Oldest City in the World and here I am right in the middle of it suffering from the oldest emotion!
- Chakka - Arab Henchman at Airport: [to Chakka] What are you today? An undercover man out in the open?