- Garak: Where you offer kindness, I offer mystery. Where you offer sympathy, I offer intrigue. Just give me a seat next to Odo's bed and I promise you I'll conjure up enough innuendos, half-truths and bald-faced lies about my so-called career in the Obsidian Order to keep the Constable distracted for days.
- Chief O'Brien: It's funny - I've served on half a dozen ships, and none of them have had cloaking devices except the Defiant. Now that we're not using it I feel... naked.
- Lt. Commander Worf: It is disconcerting, to say the least.
- Captain Sisko: Gentlemen, I feel the same breeze you do.
- [Dax smiles to herself]
- Chief O'Brien: What're you smiling at?
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: I don't know, I guess it's just being in the same room with so many naked men.
- Odo: I've spent most of my life bringing people to justice. Now that it's my turn, how can I run away?
- Garak: Come now, Mr. Worf! You're a Klingon; don't tell me you'd object to a little genocide in the name of self-defense.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Benjamin, someone's requesting permission to come on board.
- Captain Sisko: Who is it?
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Garak.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Tell him the ship is off limits to Cardassian spies.
- [Major Kira starts having one of her sneezing fits]
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: [counting] ... two... three... I say she stops at seven.
- Captain Sisko: I say eight. Mr. Worf?
- Lt. Commander Worf: Ten!
- [Kira stops after eight sneezes]
- Major Kira: I hate being pregnant!
- Captain Sisko: I win!
- [Garak has called Odo to his shop to introduce him to Chalan Aroya, a Bajoran woman]
- Odo: [after Aroya has left] The next time you call me, it had better be to report a crime.
- Garak: Now that you mention it, I've just witnessed a crime. Letting Aroya walk out of here without arranging a date, you should be locked away for that!
- Odo: [disgusted] You humanoids, you're all obsessed with these convoluted mating rituals.
- Garak: True, but do you think we'd waste so much time on something that wasn't worthwhile?
- [Odo suffers from density fluctuations]
- Doctor Bashir: For all I know, this could be a normal biological process, the Changeling equivalent of puberty - or menopause.
- Odo: That's an interesting theory, Doctor - one I suggest that you keep to yourself.
- Garak: On behalf of my people, I'd like to learn if there were any survivors after our attack on your homeland?
- Female Shapeshifter: Cardassian survivors?
- Garak: Yes.
- Female Shapeshifter: There were no Cardassian survivors.
- Garak: You mean... they're all dead?
- Female Shapeshifter: They're dead. You're dead. Cardassia is dead. Your people were doomed the moment they attacked us.
- [Worf catches Garak trying to gain access to the ship's weapons]
- Garak: Don't tell me: I overlooked one of the security monitors.
- Doctor Bashir: Physiologically, you're completely Human.
- Odo: Except for my face.
- Doctor Bashir: Yes, I was wondering about that - why they left it unchanged.
- Odo: They left it this way on purpose, to make sure I'd never forget what I was. And... what I've lost.
- Odo: When I joined with the other Changelings in the Great Link I... felt something I never felt before. In that moment, I knew I was home. For the first time I felt that I understood my people - their distrust of the Solids, their... willingness to do anything to protect themselves. And then, in an instant, it was all snatched away. I'm trapped inside this body. I can never rejoin the Great Link. My job is the only thing I have left.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Captain! Was Dax's last host as argumentative as this one?
- Captain Sisko: Worse.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Thank you Benjamin - I think.
- Female Shapeshifter: Ah, poor Odo. Perhaps we should have killed you. It would have been far less cruel.
- [after the Founders have turned Odo into a "Solid"]
- [last lines]
- Gowron: [from a recorded transmission] Archanis is ours and we will take it back. Resist us in any way, and there will be war!
- Garak: Personally, I think Starfleet should allow their officers more latitudes in accessorising their uniforms. You'd be surprised what a nice scarf can do.