- Papillon: We're really something, aren't we? The only animals that shove things up their ass for survival.
- Camp Commandant: Make the best of what we offer you, and you will suffer less than you deserve.
- Maturette: I'll do what you ask, on one condition: You keep your money and you take me with you.
- Papillon: No.
- Maturette: I'm the only one who can get you out of here.
- Papillon: You're...
- Maturette: I know. I'm a queer, a fairy, a poof, huh? But there's one thing you forgot. You may have been framed, as you say you were... but I wasn't. Between the two of us... I'm the one who's killed a man, not you.
- Papillon: Okay.
- Prisoner: I know you, you're Dega. You're a very intelligent man!
- Dega: Thank you. I seem to be known in all the wrong places.
- Warden Barrot: Put all hope out of your mind. And masturbate as little as possible, it drains the strength!
- Woman: [to Papillon as he is marched aboard ship bound for penal colony] Papillon! Papi! You'll be back, Papillon. Don't worry, you'll be back.
- Julot: No, you won't.
- Warden Barrot: [to Papillon upon his release from solitary confinement after five years following his second escape attempt] Your five years in solitary confinement are at an end. You've paid part of your debt to France.
- Warden Barrot: [last lines - voice over] Papillon made it to freedom. And for the remaining years of his life, he lived a free man. This, the infamous penal system in French Guiana, did not survive him.
- Dega: Well, it now seems quite possible that until we get to a decent jail with bribeable guards, I may stand in some need of... rather close physical protection.
- Papillon: That depends on how long you want to live.
- Dega: For a long time.
- Papillon: Then you got a problem.
- Dega: Well, I presume that you have some, uh, goals, some particular need that outrates all the others. I mean, if so... may I aslk what it is?
- Papillon: Money!
- Dega: For what?
- Papillon: Escape.
- Dega: Very good. You keep me alive until we land in Guiana, and I'll underwrite any escape you care to arrange.
- Papillon: Escape for me, not for us!
- Dega: Oh, of course. I, I, I...
- [laughs]
- Dega: . I have no intention, uh, of even attempting to escape - ever!
- Papillon: Done!
- Dega: Did you hear about my wife? She married my attorney. Or, else, he married her. Although, actually, it doesn't really matter. I mean, it all works out to the same thing. Don't you think?
- Papillon: It was the wrong wave. They come in a series of seven. The seventh wave is big enough to take us both out beyond the point of return.
- Warden Barrot: [to Papillon upon his release from solitary confinement after two years following his first escape attempt] Your term is completed.
- Commandant: As of this moment, you are the property of the Penial Administration of French Guiana. After serving your full terms in prison, those with sentences of eight years or more, will remain in Guiana as workers and colonists, for a period equal to that of your original sentences. As for France, the nation has disposed of you. France had rid herself of you altogether! Forget France... and put your clothes on.
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