- Holly: Will you tell me something? This woman Ayesha, why do you all do her bidding without question?
- Billali: It has always been so.
- Holly: Yes, but why? She's only a woman and alone. You are men and many.
- Billali: And like all men we are born, we live a span and we die. But she has been here forever. She is like the mountains, like the desert. Changeless, ageless, deathless.
- Holly: That I cannot believe. In your fear, you have accepted the impossible as truth. No one lives forever. And no one was born to be the vassal of another. You know and feel this too, I've seen it in your eyes. Your body does her bidding but your spirit cries out to be free. Is that not true?
- Billali: Each one of us has his own destiny to fulfill.
- Holly: And yours, I suppose, is to fill the next alcove. I can't believe you're such a fool, Bellali.
- Billali: No, Mr Holly. I am not such a fool.
- Holly: I suppose there's a time in everyone's life when the idea of immortality seems very desirable. But now at my age I'd have to give it a great deal of thought.
- Leo: What's age got to do with it? You'd stay as you are.
- Holly: That's not what I meant, Leo. What one would accept eagerly at your age doesn't necessarily have the same appeal at mine. It's the age of the mind that's important, not the body. You see, you're young. Still on the threshold of life. The joy of living is not to be denied, but to know that it'll be there for all time, without change. Life at a standstill. It's not quite the same thing.
- Ayesha: [about Ustane] We must be rid of her!
- Billali: I speak again, whatever risk to myself. To be rid of her would be simple, but unwise. If you are to prevail, It is the fair one who must banish her, who must turn against her. He is a man of soul and conscience. These you must destroy.
- Ayesha: I misjudged you, faithful Billali. There is wisdom in your words.
- Ayesha: I am She: Who Must Be Obeyed! There is only one penalty for those who do not choose to obey. A lesson in obedience. Teach them!
- Leo: Was that barbaric execution necessary?
- Ayesha: It was necessary!
- Holly: In God's name, why?
- Ayesha: As a demonstration of my absolute power! How else could I hold my soldiers and these pathetic creatures as my subjects? How else but by instilling fear and terror into their very souls.
- Holly: But nothing is gained by fear and terror.
- Ayesha: Is your world so much better? Your world where men kill each other in their millions in the name of freedom? Your world that has not long to live. A few decades only before it destroys itself. Then, what will be left?
- Holly: All my life I've dreamed of finding a city such as this. But now that I have, I'd like to see it destroyed and all it stands for.
- Holly: You can still go ahead and go. There's another boat next week.
- Job: Oh, no, I couldn't, Sir, not without you, Sir. I realize now that we aren't in the Army any longer you can't really afford a man-servant; but, one day you will be able to, Sir. And just think of all the back pay I'd have to cut.
- Leo: It's a funny thing, but, during the desert fighting I was never more at peace. The place had an atmosphere - something I've never felt before.
- Ayesha: Do you know who you are?
- Leo: Of course, Leo Vincent. But, that's all I'm sure of at this moment.
- Ayesha: Even in that you are wrong.
- Leo: Then I leave it to you. You tell me what is right.
- Ayesha: What is right has been foretold long ago. That you would come to her again. From out of the darkness of the past. That you would possess her. And all that once would have been his.
- Ayesha: You, who chose to call yourself Leo Vincent, will you come to me again?
- Leo: Yes. Why not now?
- [long kiss]
- Ayesha: It must be far from this place.
- Leo: Where?
- Ayesha: Across the desert of lost souls, through the mountains of the moon, a long, dangerous journey. At it's end, everything you desire will be yours. Power. Riches. Glory!
- Leo: And you.
- Ayesha: Everything you desire.
- [long kiss]
- Holly: Don't worry, Job. We'll set you on course for Jerusalem. I'm sure the camel will do the rest.
- Job: Well, no aspersions, Major, but, I don't think I could have my two gentlemen traipsing about the desert without a proper valet. Why, people would think we are down right common, Sir. Here we are, Sir. Two nice warm whiskeys.
- Holly: The deep, sincere love will last most people a lifetime. But, even then, changes from the frantic yearning of its beginnings to a quiet, unspoken understanding at its end. The physical side of human love wasn't designed to last forever.
- Leo: Let me return this ring to you.
- Ayesha: No. It's no longer necessary, for now it is rightfully yours.
- Leo: Rightfully mine?
- Ayesha: Look at it. Does it not carry the insignia of the high priest of Isis?
- Leo: Yes. But, how does that make it mine?
- Ayesha: It was once worn by Kallikrates. It shall be worn by him again.
- Leo: But, he died over 2,000 years ago!
- Ayesha: Yes. And I have spent the years since his death waiting for him to return to be my love again! My only love! And I have not waited in vain.
- Leo: Are you asking me to believe that you have lived for 2,000 years?
- Ayesha: Am I not here? And are you not Kallikrates reborn?
- Leo: You ask me to believe too much.
- Ayesha: Time, my love, is but a sea eternal. We drown in it many times and are washed ashore again and again.
- Ustane: You realize there's evil in her. Still you desire her?
- Leo: Above all else.
- Ustane: If it were only your love for Ayesha that keeps us apart, I would be happy to remain in your shadow and ask no more. But, she has bewitched you with promises of power and grandeur; while, I can but offer you my heart and unending loyalty. I know that these are not enough for you. So, I must leave. But, my love will never die. And I shall carry your memory with me forever.
- Holly: I have no desire to go back to Cambridge and teach a lot of pimply faced undergraduates the mysteries of the ancient civilizations. I always had a dream of exploring this part of the world myself. Putting some of the knowledge I gleaned from books into practical use. I know it's language and it's customs; but, if you add it all up in terms of raw experience, I had absolutely nothing.