- Berengaria, Princess of Navarre: We've been blind. We were proud dearest when we took the cross in our pride, we fought to conquer Jerusalem. We tried to ride through blood to the Holy Place of God. And now... now we suffer.
- Saladin, Sultan of Islam: The Holy City of Allah.
- Berengaria, Princess of Navarre: What if we call him Allah or God? Shall men fight because they travel different roads to him? There is only one God.
- Berengaria, Princess of Navarre: [Resisting Richard pulling her into her father's room] Let go of my wrist! You're hurting it.
- Richard, King of England: Well stop pulling then.
- Alice, Princess of France: [after being told she must vacate her cabin on the ship for another royal lady] I am Alice of France, betrothed to King Richard. Who are you?
- Berengaria, Princess of Navarre: I'm his wife.
- The Hermit: You rule here in Jerusalem. The Holy Land is yours. But
- [indicating cross]
- The Hermit: never will you conquer this! I go to all the kings in Christendom. A mighty host shall arise! And arm!
- Robert - Earl of Leicester: [of Richard] Fighting! Always fighting! Fearing no devil and praying to no god!
- Philip the Second - King of France: Richard is betrothed to my sister Alice. And with Alice Queen of England...
- Conrad - Marquis of Montferrat: ...the English Lion will be caged!
- Saladin, Sultan of Islam: Go, hermit. Carry your thunder across the sea. Tell your Christian kings what you have seen. Your women sold as slaves. Your knights trampled under our horses. Your Gospels cast into the flames. The power of your cross broken, forever.
- The Hermit: Stop! Blasphemer! I go, but I will come again.