Troy quotes

104 total quotes

Multiple Characters
Odysseus
Paris
Priam
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View Quote Achilles: Go home, prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife. Tomorrow, we'll have our war. Hector: You speak of war as if it's a game. But how many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'll never see again? Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he's good at charming other men's wives.

View Quote Achilles: He killed my cousin! Priam: He thought it was you. How many cousins have you killed? How many fathers and brothers and sons and husbands, how many, brave Achilles?

View Quote Achilles: I told you how to fight but I never told you why to fight. Patroclus: I fight for you. Achilles: Who will you fight for when I'm gone? Soldiers fight for kings they've never even met. They do what they're told to do, they die when they're told to die. Patroclus: Soldiers obey. Achilles: Don't waste your life following some fool's orders.

View Quote Achilles: If you sailed any slower the war would be over. Odysseus: I don't mind missing the start as long as I'm here at the end.

View Quote Achilles: Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight? [goes to fight Boagrius] Agamemnon: Of all the warlords loved by the gods, I hate him the most.

View Quote Achilles: Things are less simple today. Odysseus: Women have a way of complicating things.

View Quote Achilles: You were brave to fight them. Briseis: To fight back when men attack me? A dog has that kind of courage.

View Quote Agamemnon: Achilles is one man! Odysseus: Hector is one man! Look what he did to us today! Agamemnon: Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself! Odysseus: I don't care about the man's alliegence, I care about his ability to win battles!

View Quote Andromache: 50,000 men did not come to watch your brother fight and you know it.

View Quote Andromache: [to Hector] I can't imagine life without you.

View Quote Briseis: Why did you choose this life? Achilles: What life? Briseis: To be a great warrior. Achilles: I chose nothing. I was born and this is what I am.

View Quote Briseis: Would you leave this all behind? Achilles: Would you leave Troy?

View Quote Briseis: You lost your cousin, and now you have taken mine. Where does it end? Achilles: It never ends.

View Quote Briseis: [to Achilles] Do you enjoy provoking me?

View Quote Briseis: I thought you were a dumb brute. I could have forgiven a dumb brute.