- Velocchio: The most important thing for me is... that you love me... protect me and trust me. All my life I've been weak. l need your help. Tell me what to do. Tell me how to be. Cynical, maybe?
- Alfred Redl: Why cynical?
- Velocchio: You don't believe in the whole thing, but you go on. You said war is coming, but you'll lose it anyway.
- Alfred Redl: Katalin, did you see him?
- Katalin: Who?
- Alfred Redl: The Emperor, admiring the view?
- Katalin: He has a hunting lodge here.
- Alfred Redl: The Emperor! What if we'd stopped to greet him?
- Katalin: What would you have said? Major Redl begs to report?
- Alfred Redl: I'd have wished him good health and a long life.