- Title Card: Between Europe and Africa, stretching from Gibraltar to the Syrian coast, lies the Mediterranean, land-locked and tideless, known to the ancients as Mare Nostrum - "Our Sea".
- Title Card: Upon its bosom mankind spread the first sail. From its depths the sea gods were born.
- The Triton (prologue): You do not know the difference between a frigate and a brigantine! What the devil do they teach you at school?
- Don Esteban Ferragut (prologue): I have made up my mind. My son, Ulysses, shall become a *lawyer* - like me!
- The Triton (prologue): And I have made up my mind. My nephew, Ulysses, shall become a *man* - like me!
- Title Card: The Triton had chosen Ulysses' profession. Ulysses' parents had chosen his wife, Doña Cinta.
- Title Card: Where had he known this woman? From somewhere in the dim past came back the memory of those eyes - that smile.
- Doctor Fedelmann: Poor Germany! She needs such gallant gentlemen as you... The world is *ravishing* her!
- Count Kaledine: Bad news from Rome. These Italians are getting away from us.
- Doctor Fedelmann: Mandolin-twangers!... Bandits!
- Count Kaledine: What of the Spaniard, Ferragut? What does he think?
- Doctor Fedelmann: Men who are drugged with love do not think.
- Naples Landlady: Your lady-birds have flown.
- Telegraph Operator: The "Californian" sending an S.O.S. My God!... A submarine has attacked the "Californian". There are women... children!
- Freya Talberg: [referring to her fur and pearls] They are my coat of arms. With them a lone woman can face the world - often with an empty purse.
- Title Card: [at the prison] Freya's last request - the privilege of wearing her furs and jewels - had been granted,
- Freya Talberg: [donning her fur coat] I die in my uniform, like a soldier.
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