“- Max: [after Max drinks the vial] Now you have no choice! You'll have to take me!
- Winifred Sanderson: What a fool to give us thy life... for thy sister's.”
Omri Katz - Max
Bette Midler - Winifred

“- Hegai, the Royal Eunuch: You think an eunuch can know love? That before I was a cripple of a man, there was one that held my heart.
- Hadassah / Esther: What became of her?
- Hegai, the Royal Eunuch: I know not. I never found the courage to return to face her again.”
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - Hegai, the Royal Eunuch
Tiffany Dupont - Hadassah / Esther

“Any man that's got the guts to sell his soul for love has got the power to change the world. You didn't do it for greed, you did it for the right reason. Maybe that puts God on your side.”

Sam Elliott - Caretaker

“I will not leave Cold Mountain. My last thread of courage is to wait... for you.”

Nicole Kidman - Ada Monroe

“- Dorothy Wynant: He still wants to marry me.
- Clyde Wynant: He's a brave man!”

Maureen O'Sullivan - Dorothy Wynant
Edward Ellis - Clyde Wynant