Brierly: Could you do what he did?
The French Officer: Who knows? Under certain conditions, fear will come to any man. It's always there, waiting for us...

- Eli Wallach (as The General) in Lord Jim (1965)

Stein: [to Jim] You have too much pride in your humility.

- Paul Lukas (as Stein) in Lord Jim (1965)

Lord Jim: I've been a so-called coward and a so-called hero and there's not the thickness of a sheet of paper between them. Maybe cowards and heroes are just ordinary men who, for a split second, do something out of the ordinary. That's all.

- Peter O'Toole (as Lord Jim) in Lord Jim (1965)

Marlow: [first lines; narrating] Joseph Conrad wrote, "If you want to know the age of the Earth, look upon the sea in a storm." But what storm could fully reveal the heart of a man?

- Jack Hawkins (as Marlow) in Lord Jim (1965)

Marlow: [Narrating] One hope kept Jim going - a hope common to most men. Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?

- Jack Hawkins (as Marlow) in Lord Jim (1965)

Gentleman Brown: [on Jim] His Lordship has pretensions to heroism - a form of mental disease induced by vanity.

- James Mason (as Gentleman Brown) in Lord Jim (1965)

Gentleman Brown: [to Cornelius] Drunk, you're useless!
Schomberg: He's useless anyway.

- Akim Tamiroff (as Schomberg) in Lord Jim (1965)

Gentleman Brown: [to Cornelius] You have a natural talent for disaster! Try and improve yourself into an ordinary failure by keeping your mouth shut.

- James Mason (as Gentleman Brown) in Lord Jim (1965)