- Vittorio Manalese: Well, personally, I trust the engineer. He sounds okay to me. This is a professional job.
- [Turns and looks at Roget Sarte]
- Vittorio Manalese: You're the one I don't trust!
- Roget: Me?
- Vittorio: Yeah, you! All your brains are below your belt! You almost got us all in cold storage last night playing games in a whorehouse!
- Anton Chekhov: When I paint horse thieves, I do not say stealing horses is wrong. That's the jury's concern, not mine.
- [Anton Chekhov is quoted in the foreword of this film; from a letter explaining the aim of his writing]