- Zilpha Geary: My husband is harsh and is a Christian. I welcome it. I deserve it.
- James Keziah Delaney: You're husband is a fool. He cannot see all that you are. I have sailed to places where there is no damnation. We used to talk to each other without words in dark corners. Your curiosity and hunger for all that is possible out there could never be tethered by base religious morality, ship insurance and new china.
- Zilpha Geary: Please understand that from this moment I will burn your letters without opening them.
- James Keziah Delaney: Then I will visit you in your dreams, my love.
- Thorne Geary: You know... it excites me, the thought of it... when I realise the woman beneath me... is capable of what she did. She can seem so cold, at least, she used to. Now I know the secret in her head. And it makes me so hard... and so angry... And she likes it... Since you came back, our fucking has become almost murderous. It exhausts us. To think I have this wicked... wicked thing beneath me and it's my lifelong duty to punish her. It exhausts us both. A beautiful exhaustion. And in the morning I read the Gazett and she eats her toast... like a sweet little bird... I didn't come to sell you insurance, Mr. Delaney. I came to thank you.
- James Keziah Delaney: My servant wants to shoot you in the face.
- Lorna Bow: Your servant is now half mine.
- Prince Regent: And who is this man? Is he loyal?
- Solomon Coop: Erm, well, we think not.
- Prince Regent: A republican?
- Solomon Coop: An adventurer of very poor repute... Stories of madness, savagery, theft and worse.
- Prince Regent: Then, Mr. Coop... he is a man that you will be able to do business with.
- Thorne Geary: My dearest Zilpha... I apologise... that I am not related to you. But you could allow your cunt to swallow the work of an honest man, who will promise to buy you the finest china... if you just agree to stop fucking bleeding.