Gladiator quotes

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View Quote The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end, Highness.

View Quote Marcus: You have proved your valor yet again, Maximus. Let us hope for the last time.
Maximus: There is no one left to fight, sire.
Marcus: There is always someone left to fight. How can I reward Rome's greatest general?
Maximus: Let me go home.
Marcus: Ah, home.

View Quote My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North. General of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife...and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

View Quote So Spaniard, we shall go to Rome together and have bloody adventures. And the great whore will suckle us until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more! And then, when enough men have died, perhaps you will have your freedom.

View Quote Some of you are thinking you won't fight. Others, that you can't fight, they all say that, until they're out there. [He picks up a sword.] Thrust this into another man's chest, and the crowd will applaud and love you for it. In time, you may even begin to love them for that. Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but...we can decide how we meet that end, so that we are remembered...as men.

View Quote Your faults as a son is my failure as a father.

View Quote Gracchus: He enters Rome like a conquering hero. But what has he conquered?
Falco: Give him time, Gracchus. He's young, he think he can do very well.
Gracchus: For Rome? Or for you?

View Quote Gracchus: But the Senate is the people, sire. Chosen from among the people, to speak for the people.
Commodus: I doubt if any of the people eat so well as you, Gracchus. Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius.

View Quote Commodus: They embrace me as one of their own. The people are my children and I am their father.
Gracchus: Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?
Commodus: [turns to face him slowly] No. But if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you shall.

View Quote Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.

View Quote Lucilla: I want to help you.
Maximus: Yes, you can help me. Forget you ever knew me, never come back here again.

View Quote (to Maximus) you are the son that I should have had !

View Quote Maximus: ... And you have met Caesar?
Proximo: ... Yes ... yes, I did ...

View Quote When a man sees his end he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

View Quote I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."