Spartan King Leonidas quotes
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Madness? This is Sparta!!! [kicks the Persian messenger into a well]
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[To Gorgo] It would take more than the words of a drunken adolescent girl to rob me of my desire for you.
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[To Captain Artemis] You are a good friend, but a better captain there is none.
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Immortals. We'll put their name to the test.
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Today, no Spartan dies!
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This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die! Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for all time.
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[Xerxes is brought to Leonidas on a massive gold throne carried on the back of his servants] Let me guess. You must be ... Xerxes.
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[After being threatened with the deaths of the Spartan women] Clearly you don't know our women. I might as well have marched them up here, judging by what I've seen.
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[After Xerxes offered to make Leonidas Warlord of his Empire, if he would only kneel before him] You are generous as you are divine, oh king of kings. Such an offer only a madman would refuse. But ... the idea of kneeling, it's, uh ... you see, slaughtering all those men of yours has left a nasty cramp in my leg – so kneeling will be hard for me.
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The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle is over, that even a god-king can bleed.
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We're in for one wild night.
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Spartans! Push!
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Spartans! Prepare for glory!
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[Response to Daxos, an Arcadian, saying their choices were to retreat, surrender, or die] Well, that's an easy choice for us, Arcadian. Spartans never retreat! Spartans never surrender!
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No retreat, no surrender. That is Spartan law. And by Spartan law, we will stand and fight ... and die. A new age has begun: an age of freedom! And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it!
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Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine in hell!
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[After dropping his helmet and his shield whilst being asked to submit] You there, Ephialtes: may you live forever.
A Spartan insult: may he live with the guilt of his actions for all of time and never receive the glorious death on the battlefield that all Spartans desire.
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[Dying words] My Queen! My wife! My love.