Mordecai:
A drunken brawl is no place for a young lady of purity.
Rebekah:
Then why's a good Jew like you goin'?
Hagai:
Where are you from?
Queen Esther:
I am... of the wind. Like the wind, blowing where I may please, and gathering where I choose.
Hagai:
Well, we gather in an hour. Try not to blow away before then.
Mordecai:
You were chosen for a time such as this...
King Xerxes:
[Xerxes is returning from the training camp, having been gone for quite some time] Have you had a busy morning?
Queen Esther:
Not as busy as it could get.
King Xerxes:
Of all commodities love is the most cheaply purchased
Queen Esther:
If it is for sale, my lord, it is not love.
Queen Esther:
What made you come back?
King Xerxes:
I saw them, I saw the stars.
Mordecai:
God, every day I pray for you to give me the paitence of Job, the wisdom of Soloman. And what do you give me? You give me the endless equivocations... of a beautiful, young woman!
Queen Esther:
If I perish... I perish.
Queen Esther:
You see me as a child? Well, you are mistaken, I am much younger!
Mordecai:
Why would they buy belladonna from you?
Jweish apothecary merchant:
May they seek poison someone. Very deadly. Very quick.
Mordecai:
You sold them poision? A Jew sells poison to the king's fruit tasters?
[grabbing the merchants face and shaking him]
Mordecai:
Have you any idea for whom it might have been intended?
Queen Esther:
My father told me it is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the honor of kings to search it out.