- King Gama: Oh, don't the days seem lank and long / When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, / And isn't your life extremely flat / With nothing whatever to grumble at.
- Prince Hilarion, King Hildebrand's Son: [singing] Come Cyril, Florian! Our course is plain! Tomorrow morn, fair Ida we'll engage. But we will use no force her love to gain. Nature, nature has armed us for the war we wage!
- King Gama: Consider this, my love. If your mama had looked on matters from your point of view... and I rather wish she had... why where would you have been?