- [McCall discovers that his colleague Kostmeyer, has been intimate with a woman that McCall asked him to protect]
- Robert McCall: Some years ago, a colleague of mine on a simple job, rather like this one, decided he was going to have a little bit of fun. During the course of that 'little bit of fun,' the opposition came in and destroyed them both! You were supposed to protect that girl, not seduce her.
- Mickey Kostmayer: It wasn't what you think. What happened between us is our business.
- Robert McCall: Wrong! That girl was under my protection. Anyone under my protection is very much my business. Get out.
- [a police detective confronts McCall about a vigilante killing criminals in McCall's name]
- Sgt. Oliver Gant: I don't like what you do.
- Robert McCall: What is it you think I do?
- Sgt. Oliver Gant: You are a hired gun!
- Robert McCall: If by that remark you mean that I sometimes help people in trouble, yes I do. But if you mean that I'm anything like this madman out there, then you're wrong again! Let me tell you something, Sergeant: That man is harming my reputation, so if you think you want him, I want him a damn sight more!
- W. Donald Polk: [having just successfully acquitted two criminals of murder] He was seventy-three, the man you killed. Seventy-three.
- Thug: You're missin' the point. He called us. NOBODY calls us.
- Sydney Blake: [referring to the carjacker who was badly hurt during her escape] I feel so bad about all of this.
- Detective: Miss Blake, if they had gotten you out of that car, they, well... it wouldn't have been very nice. The best thing you could have done was to get out of there.
- W. Donald Polk: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned;"
- Robert McCall: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity."