- [telling Steve Walker about Blackbeard's tenth wife]
- Emily Stowecroft: Aldetha was a witch, you know. She never forgave the Captain for denouncing her to the authorities. When they were burning Aldetha at the stake, she put a terrible curse on him. As the flames crept higher and higher, she screeched her dying words:
- [raises her voice and startles Steve]
- Emily Stowecroft: "*Edward Teach*, sometimes known as Captain Blackbeard, when you come to die, may your body and soul be racked between this world and the next, always to be alone! May this curse hold fast and true, may you be held forevermore in limbo, until such time as there be found in you, most wicked of all villains - "
- [laughs maniacally]
- Emily Stowecroft: " - some spark of human goodness!"
- Emily Stowecroft: [in her calm, normal voice again] Well, good night, Mr. Walker. Sleep well! The dining room will be open for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Please be prompt.
- Captain Blackbeard: Impersonating Gudger: ''Come on coach will you we've come in last in two events already''. Ew another beanrake. All right play it whatever way ya like ya puppy. You'll get no help from me. You'll come crawling back you will! I'll bring my boot to ya and I'll grind ya mealy mouth jibb into the dirt! I will.
- Steve Walker: I don't think you're real and I don't think that sword is real. I'm going to walk straight through it and go to bed!
- Steve Walker: You took that money.
- Captain Blackbeard: Money? Money... OH, the odd flimsy I removed from the pocketbook of your book-ish wench.
- Captain Blackbeard: What manner of craft be this we're cruisin' in?
- Steve Walker: It's an automobile.
- Captain Blackbeard: Eh?
- Steve Walker: An automobile!
- Captain Blackbeard: Oh, is it? Yes. An "automotonus". Yes, "auto-some-o-nee-mones!"
- Steve Walker: [referring to Blackbeard] You know something, I think I'm really gonna miss the old scoundrel.
- Jo Anne Baker: You know something? I loved you even when I thought you were nuts.
- Gudger Larkin: Hey Coach! Shockley Just cleared six feet eleven. And they're trying for seven feet!
- Steve Walker: Our Shockley?
- Captain Blackbeard: By thunder! This raises my blood! There be a time for action! Hang on old ladies, Blackbeard's coming! Up the Jolly Roger!
- Captain Blackbeard: I did have a treasure. I had a big treasure. Lovely, I did. But I spent it all in one week. Among the flesh pots and gambling hells of Port Royal oh what a glorious week!
- Steve Walker: Oh you know what you are? You are a total loss you're not even a respectable ghost! You're a phoney! A phoney!
- Captain Blackbeard: [revealing his treasure has gone] There's not a penny. Not a doubloon. Not a bent or damaged peseta!