- Capt. Bardow: Mr Tilley you're a decent man, you must fight this madness with everything you've got.
- Capt. Bardow: Try to keep them calm.
- Pam Leyton: The search will terrify them!
- Capt. Bardow: I'd rather have terrified live passengers than calm dead ones.
- Inez Barrington: As leader of the opposition you're not doing very well...
- Mulliner: You don't fool me Miss Barrington.
- Inez Barrington: Fool you? Why should I want to try and fool someone like you.
- Mulliner: You're just trying to show how superior you are. I've had you figured from the start. Lady Sure-Of-Herself, the ex-Deb, high society.
- Inez Barrington: That's right. I belong to a society that tries to preserve the best of our culture. Such as being calm in a crisis.
- Pam Leyton: Would you like a cup of tea, Mrs Morgan?
- Emma Morgan, Pam Leyton: A large martini with just a wink of vermouth.
- Carol Tilley: Don't be so morbid, please.
- Ernest Tilley: Are you so afraid?
- Carol Tilley: Afraid of flying?
- Ernest Tilley: Afraid of dying.
- Carol Tilley: Of course I am - I like being alive.
- Ernest Tilley: You really like living in this senseless, this heartless world?
- Angelica Como: Pull yourself together, Mrs Slattery. It doesn't look good a woman of your age falling apart.
- Inez Barrington: I think you're afraid to die, Mr Mulliner.
- Mulliner: And you're not?
- Inez Barrington: Of course I am. But I wouldn't dream of letting it show.
- Capt. Bardow: Mr Mulliner, i don't want to have to warn you again...
- Mulliner: Then don't warn me! What are you doing about our safety?
- Capt. Bardow: I've just said. Everything that has to be done. Including stopping you from making it worse.
- Ernest Tilley: You think you have a plane full of people here? You have a travelling zoo. And as soon as they hear what's going to happen to them, they'll savage each other like the wild animals they are.