- Katerina Durová: I gather that you're arguing about some nonsense, shouting as if money were at stake. My husband chatters quite often. I've had to beg it since I was 17, as I married young. I could've had my pick of better young men than the Master here. However, Antonin beat up my suitors and stole the keys, which conveniently opened my door. And he bothered me until marriage became a necessity.
- Maj. Hugo: As far as I can tell, your satisfaction comes from having the last word.
- Antonín Dura: Better to have the last word than the last blow.
- Priest: Hey, sir. Tame your stick! I can see it clearly between your thighs! Who taught you such manners?
- Antonín Dura: Don't take me for someone with no manners. I took off my shorts for a good reason, as skin is meant to breathe and requires it. I was taught the principles of good hygiene. I've adopted them and I follow them with great benefit to my body.
- Maj. Hugo: Let's eat and drink, bring the food! Fatty cheese, venison, birds, lamb. All that is born live and all that hatches from an egg. Bring all edible that ripens, all that has fins, and all kinds of crustaceans eating in civilized countries. Bring it here, it's daytime, the earth has turned and it's time to eat.
- Priest: Major, have you become a glutton or a talker? Do you wish to show off your teeth or your tongue?
- Katerina Durová: You almost resemble a guard I used to know quite intimately in my youth. Come help me. Oh, the guard was handsome and quarrelsome like you. I offered him all I found proper to tame his temper. Nevertheless, he opened buttons too fast and drank one bottle after another.
- Antonín Dura: The nights are delightful and the days are worthless. Why is that so, Father?
- Priest: I think it's because you are a great sinner, and this nasty, windy weather every day is the punishment of heaven.
- Antonín Dura: The devil it is! There were times when we sinned all we wanted and the sun kept shining. It's something else, I believe.
- Maj. Hugo: The attraction of the sexes is older than the rocks and the sea, yet that's no reason for a deluge the arrive.
- Katerina Durová: They deceived me by drenching their clothes!
- Priest: Look at Antonin. Do you think this oaf could win such a pretty girl? Are you sure it was the magician's Anna?
- Maj. Hugo: Canon Roch is right. Maybe it was a granny picking mushrooms. Your husband tends to be unchaste, but he's old now.
- Katerina Durová: I know him better than anyone how old he is. But this slut did not come from mushrooms.
- Katerina Durová: Open up! Open up, you derelict and shameful womanizer! Damned be this state of affairs! I get only shame and injustice. I could've chosen from a pack of men and which one did I pick? A nincompoop in love with hot young things! A beggar looking everywhere for pretty plumage!
- Antonín Dura: Do you believe, Major, that everything arises out of playfulness and courage of those people who, not creating either books or consumer objects, have enough time to prattle on like gods and arrange things in a surprising order?
- Antonín Dura: Oh, you lewd poets! Oh, you wicked literature! When will we have fiction about brothels? When will it turn to civic virtues?
- Priest: I'd like to know how Arnostek will make his bed and lie in it and what the two women will do, since I believe that Arnostek's wagon is small and surely doe not have three bedrooms.
- Antonín Dura: I wish to say this: Distance is measured by yearning. Abundance is measured by hunger.
- Antonín Dura: Anna: showing the joint mechanics and muscle contractions, provides us with a joyful image of pure being and serious acts, which form the roots of theater and thus she praises God for his alleged creation of the human body in his image.
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