Rita Hayworth credited as playing...
Princess Salome
- Princess Salome: What does he say, Marcellus? Tell me!
- Marcellus Fabius: [reading] Remember the law, learned Senator, a Roman may marry only a Roman and I need not tell you the Princess Salome is held in ill repute.
- Princess Salome: Ill repute? Because I enjoyed life here?
- Marcellus Fabius: I cannot ask you to marry me if I had no more status than a slave.
- Princess Salome: I would join you as a slave!
- Princess Salome: So, I - I am banished from Rome. To make certain that Caesar's nephew marry's a Roman - not a "barbarian".
- Princess Salome: Another gallant Roman. Governors, Senators, Commanders. All alike. Men of iron, made to rule. All heartless liars.
- King Herod: The blossom does justice to the bud.
- Princess Salome: Thank you, Your Majesty.
- King Herod: Or, should I say the radiant flower that bloomed in Rome: beautiful, beyond my expectations.
- Princess Salome: Your Majesty need not trouble. I will find ways to make the time pass.
- King Herod: I'll help you!
- Commander Claudius: What is the measure of love?
- Princess Salome: What is asked of another and what is granted.
- Commander Claudius: Anything.
- Princess Salome: [King Herod presents a jeweled necklace] It is more fitting that you give it to the Queen.
- King Herod: It is mine to give as I wish.
- Princess Salome: Not mine, to accept.
- King Herod: Then wear it for me. That will be a token between us, that you may know how much - how much you please me.
- Princess Salome: Allow the Queen to please Your Majesty.
- King Herod: Am I to be denied what I want above all? One woman with whom I can find forgetfulness.
- Princess Salome: Your Majesty takes much for granted, even though he is King, and he forgets - the Queen is my mother.
- Queen Herodias: You can persuade him.
- Princess Salome: How?
- Queen Herodias: With your matchless beauty! Dance for him tonight.
- Princess Salome: Dance for him? Mother you know who dances for the King, becomes his possession.
- Queen Herodias: Yes, I know the custom.
- Princess Salome: You would have me give myself to...
- Queen Herodias: For the throne, yes!
- Princess Salome: All my life I've been surrounded by wickedness. I have lived by false standards. I have held myself unaccountable to anyone. And I have known evil. For the first time, I see there is good in the world.
- John the Baptist: To see good is to be awakened to the Lord.