- King Rudolf V: I like you. You're a good fellow. Oh, you're English, but you're a good fellow. I want to drink a toast to you.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I know my clothes are a little conservative, but we English always dress as if we're going to a funeral when we're on a holiday.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] I probably looked like a prize idiot and talked like one, too.
- Princess Flavia: You're too modest. You really looked and acted like a King today.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Oh, thank you.
- Princess Flavia: It was delightfully unexpected.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Oh.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] Well, I think everything went off very well, don't you? For a coronation, I mean, that is, not that a coronation shouldn't go well. Provided the king puts in an appearance suitably dressed and suitably rehearsed.
- Princess Flavia: And suitably sober.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: And suitably sober! Yes, I was hoping you would notice that.
- Rupert of Hentzau: [referring to the King] He's in a woodcutter's cabin. Oh, and by the way, royal blood is not blue as most people think. It's red. I know because I had to spill a little.
- Rupert of Hentzau: I'm glad you stopped lying to me. I hate being lied to by women. They never did before. I always lied to them.
- Antoinette de Mauban: You and I will never have anything to lie to each other about, Count Rupert.
- Rupert of Hentzau: Never? Somebody once called fidelity the fading woman's greatest weapon the charming woman's greatest hypocrisy. And you're very charming - to anyone whose head is not bowed beneath a borrowed crown.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I was hoping that our skeleton was safe at home in our family cupboard.
- Fritz von Tarlenheim: Some skeletons are prodigious travelers.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: But surely, no woman in her right senses would prefer the Duke to you.
- Rupert of Hentzau: Women are never in their right senses, thank goodness!
- King Rudolf V: You must forgive me if I seem a little slow, but it's a bit early in the day to see double - even for me.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I hope your trout take as much interest in me as you do. I shan't be able to land them fast enough.
- King Rudolf V: I propose a toast.
- Man: Here here!
- Fritz von Tarlenheim: Another toast!
- King Rudolf V: A toast to... have we anybody left?
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Your brother Michael, perhaps?
- King Rudolf V: We drink to Michael in vinegar, my friend, not in good wine.
- Michael, Duke of Strelsau: How badly did you wound him?
- Rupert of Hentzau: Not fatally, I'm afraid. But the cabin is very damp, your highness - he could easily develop pneumonia...
- Michael, Duke of Strelsau: And let the Englishman reign for the rest of his life? Could we ever expose him?
- Rupert of Hentzau: That hadn't occurred to me.
- Michael, Duke of Strelsau: But if the Englishman died first, and was buried in the cathedral as the King...
- Rupert of Hentzau: There are moments in your presence, your highness, when I feel myself an amateur.
- Antoinette de Mauban: You promised to make me your wife. I want to be your wife. I want to love you and make you happy. Once you are regent, they would never let you marry me. Michael, take the happiness we can have together. Leave the power to your brother.
- Michael, Duke of Strelsau: No!
- King Rudolf V: What are you doing here, cousin?
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I must admit to being guilty of the same offense as our mutual ancestor, Your Majesty.
- King Rudolf V: And what was that?
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Fishing in forbidden waters.
- Col. Zapt: You have a duty, Your Majesty.
- King Rudolf V: Duty, duty. On my last night of freedom?
- Col. Zapt: I question your freedom to drink yourself into a condition in which you'll not be fit to be crowned.
- King Rudolf V: I question your right to address me in that manner.
- Col. Zapt: I served your father in...
- King Rudolf V: I question your right to bring my father into this.
- Rupert of Hentzau: Poor Michael, how he shortchanges himself - deserting a warm, exciting woman of the world for an insipid wax doll.
- Antoinette de Mauban: That was hardly up to your usual standard, Count Rupert. I'd heard you were much more subtle.
- Michael, Duke of Strelsau: I've played second fiddle to that drunken sot for the last time. His mother was a princess and mine was not, so he lived in the royal palace, he dined with kings. Well, today the feast is set for Rudolf. But it's Michael who will sit in his place.
- Rupert of Hentzau: I love arrogance in a woman. It's always so amusing to discover that their arrogance is only a defense. But you need no defense against me. You and I are allies.
- Michael, Duke of Strelsau: It's the day, the hour, almost the moment.
- Rupert of Hentzau: History is born out of a bottle of wine.
- Princess Flavia: Bless them. They're with you heart and soul.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] Me? It was you they were cheering. I felt like cheering you too when I first saw you.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] By the way, among my other failings, I've rather neglected you, haven't I?
- Princess Flavia: Two picture post cards in three years, I think.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: To think, all this time you've been changing into the loveliest princess in Europe. No, the loveliest girl in Europe.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] I had a queer feeling that something might go wrong.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] I'm crowned king, I meet the loveliest, the most beautiful woman.
- Princess Flavia: Well, that isn't what you used to say. You used to call me "that clumsy little scarecrow."
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I did?
- Princess Flavia: Yes.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I should've been horsewhipped.
- Princess Flavia: Those were my very words.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] I love you more than truth or life or honor.
- [kiss]
- Princess Flavia: Tell me, Rudolf, why is it that I love you now with all my heart, when I never even liked you before?
- Fritz von Tarlenheim: By the way, Rassendyll, what were you doing with the Princess all that time? Can't you even leave the King to do his own lovemaking?
- Princess Flavia: You ask that as if you'd be pleased to hear me say yes.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] Would "yes" be true?
- Princess Flavia: Yes.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] There are times when a man might find it impossible to do even what his heart prompts him to do. But I never could willingly do anything to hurt you.
- Fritz von Tarlenheim: What a day for you to remember. I'll never forget old Müller at the cathedral. He used to be the king's tutor. He fixed his eye on you and he never took it off. I was certain the game was up, until I realized that eye was his glass one.
- Rupert of Hentzau: Your Highness shows me the path of duty. It is the simple duty of a patriot to kill him like a dog.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] Could you still love me if I were not the king?
- Princess Flavia: In my heart there is no king, no crown. Only you.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Before we go any further, I must tell you I'm prepared to give you a chance to escape - your thoroughly well-deserved end - on the condition that you yourself return the prisoner of Zenda to me alive.
- Princess Flavia: Your first duty is to the boars. They would never forgive you if you didn't hunt them and kill them.
- Rupert of Hentzau: Odd, a man not knowing his own brother. But I assure you, they're enough alike to be twins.
- Michael, Duke of Strelsau: You're trying to tell me the man I saw crowned is an impostor?
- Rupert of Hentzau: Not your type of fiction, I see, Your Highness. Too incredible. But still, these things do happen. I knew twin sisters once who - but that's another story.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: From the first moment I saw you in the cathedral I knew you were the only woman in the world for me.
- Princess Flavia: My darling, your heart will always be in my heart and the touch of your lips on mine.
- King Rudolf V: I haven't lived like a king. But perhaps I can die like one and not disgrace the crown I never wore.
- Rupert of Hentzau: It was very careless of you to leave your door ajar. Very careless - and *very* inviting.
- Antoinette de Mauban: Oh? Yes.
- Rupert of Hentzau: Come now, admit I've been patient. And patience is a virtue I generally lack.
- Antoinette de Mauban: You never lack audacity, Rupert.
- Antoinette de Mauban: You really shouldn't be here, you know.
- Rupert of Hentzau: Of course.
- [walks in]
- Rupert of Hentzau: I shouldn't.