Multiple Characters quotes

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 Eudorus: [about Patroclus, speaking to Achilles] He wore your armor, your shield, your greaves, your helmet. He even moved like you.

View Quote Nestor: This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.

View Quote Nestor: [in reference to Achilles] How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword?

View Quote Nestor: That man was born to end lives.

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

View Quote Briseis: Stop! Too many men have died today! If killing is your only talent, it's your curse. I don't want anyone dying for me.

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

View Quote Menelaus: May the Gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds!

View Quote Menelaus: [to Paris] See the crows? They've never tasted Prince before.

View Quote Thetis: If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be lost. If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories for thousands of years, and the world will honor your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back, for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your fate. And I shall never see you again.

View Quote Helen: Menelaus was a brave man. He fought for honor. And every day I was with him, I wanted to walk into the sea and drown.

View Quote Glaucus: [the Trojans are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! It has been my honor to lead you! And now the boatman is awaiting us! I say we make him wait a little longer!

View Quote Agamemnon: I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant.
Hector: You come here uninvited. Get back to your ships and leave.
Agamemnon: We've come too far to stop now, Prince Hector.

View Quote Menelaus: Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, then steal his wife in the middle of the night?!
Paris: The sun was shining when your wife left you.
Menelaus: She's up there watching, isn't she? Good. I want her to watch you die.
Agamemnon: Not yet, brother. Look around you, Hector. I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores.
Nestor: You can still save Troy, young prince.
Agamemnon: I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call.
Hector: You want me to look upon your army and tremble? Well I see them. I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.
Agamemnon: Careful boy, my mercy has limits.
Hector: And I've seen the limits of your mercy, and I tell you now: no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.
Agamemnon: Then every son of Troy... shall die!

View Quote Hector: Fight me!
Achilles: Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no one here to see you fall?

View Quote Briseis: Am I still your captive?
Achilles: You're my guest.
Briseis: In Troy, guests can leave whenever they want.
Achilles: You should leave then.

View Quote Paris: Father, this is Helen.
Priam: Helen? Helen of Sparta?
Paris: Helen of Troy.
Priam: I'd heard rumours of your beaty, and for once, the gossips were right.

View Quote Patroclus: But this is a war! You'd betray all of Greece just to see Agamemnon fall?!
Achilles: Someone has to lose.

View Quote Achilles: Patroclus, put down your spear.
Patroclus: I'm fighting the Trojans.
Achilles: Not today.
Patroclus: But I'm ready, you taught me how to fight!
Achilles: And you're a good student, but you're not a Myrmidon yet. Look at these men. They are the fiercest warriors in all of Greece. Each of them has bled for me. You will guard the ship.
Patroclus: But this is a war!
Achilles: Cousin, I can't fight the Trojans if I'm concerned for you. Guard the ship.

View Quote Agamemnon: A great victory was won today, but that victory was not yours. Kings did not kneel to Achilles. Kings did not pay homage to Achilles.
Achilles: Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see; the soldiers won the battle.
Agamemnon: History remembers kings, not soldiers! Tomorrow we'll batter down the gates of Troy and I will build monuments for victory on every island of Greece; I'll carve "Agamemnon" in the stone!
Achilles: Be careful, King of Kings. First you need the victory.

View Quote Hector: Do you know what you've done? Do you know how many years our father worked for peace?
Paris: I love her.
Hector: Oh, it's all a game to you, isn't it? You roam from town to town, bedding merchants' wives and temple maids and you think you know something about love? What about your father's love? You spat on him when you brought her onboard this ship! What about the love for your country? You'd let Troy burn for this woman?! I will NOT let you start a war for her!
Paris: What you say is true, I've wronged you. I've wronged our father. If you want to take Helen back to Sparta, so be it... but I go with her.
Hector: To Sparta, they'll kill you!
Paris: Then I'll die fighting.
Hector: Oh, and that's sounds heroic to you, to die fighting? Have you ever killed a man?
Paris: No.
Hector: Ever seen a man die in combat?
Paris: No.
Hector: I've killed men. I've heard them dying, I've watched them dying and there's nothing glorious about it! Nothing poetic! You say you're willing to die for love, but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!
Paris: All the same, I go with her. I won't ask you to fight my war.
Hector: You already have.

View Quote Priam: Paris, do you love her?
Paris: Father, you are a great king because you love your country so much. Every blade of grass, every grain of sand, every rock in the river. You love all of Troy. That is the way I love Helen.

View Quote Achilles: [about Hector's body] If I let you walk out of here, if I let you take him, it changes nothing. You're still my enemy in the morning.
Priam: And you're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.

View Quote Paris: Pearls from the sea of Propontus.
Helen: They're beautiful, but I can't wear them. Menelaus would kill us both.
Paris: Don't be afraid of him.
Helen: I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of tomorrow. I'm afraid of watching you sail away and knowing you'll never come back. Before you came to Sparta, I was a ghost. I walked and I ate and I swam in the sea... I was just a ghost.
Paris: You don't have to fear tomorrow. Come with me.
Helen: Don't play with me, don't play.
Paris: If you come we'll never be safe. Men will hunt us, the gods will curse us, but I'll love you. Until the day they burn my body, I'll love you.

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 [Paris enters Helen's room while the rest are partying outside]
Helen: You should not have come here tonight. Paris: That's what you said last night? Helen: Last night was a mistake. Paris: And the night before? Helen: I have made many mistakes this week.

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

View Quote Messenger Boy: Are the stories true? They say your mother was an immortal goddess. They say you can't be killed. Achilles: I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I? Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man i've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him. Achilles: Thats why no-one will remember your name.

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 Menelaus: I want her back. Agamemnon: Well, of course you do. She's a beautiful woman. Menelaus: I want her back so I can kill her with my own two hands. I won't rest until I've burned Troy to the ground.

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 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 Hector: I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday, and I wish it had been you. But I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved. Achilles: You gave him the honor of your sword! You won't have eyes tonight, you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know...this is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles.

View Quote Paris: Tis a beautiful morning. Poseidon has blessed our voyage. Hector: Sometimes the gods bless you in the morning and curse you in the afternoon. Paris: Do you love me brother? Would you protect me against any enemy? Hector: [intrigued] The last time you spoke to me like this, you were ten years old, and had just stolen father's horse... what have you done now? Paris: I must show you something. [Paris leads Hector into the bottom deck of the ship to reveal Helen, who he brought from Sparta]

View Quote Priam: I have endured what no one on earth has endured. I have kissed the hands of the man who killed my son. Achilles: Priam?

View Quote Odysseus: We need you. Greece needs you. Achilles: Greece got along fine before I was born. And Greece will be Greece long after I am gone.

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

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 Hector: If I die... Andromache: No... Hector: If I die I don't know how much longer Troy will stand.

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 Patroclus:Is Prince Hector a good a warrior as they say? Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. (looks at Achilles) Some say he's better than all the Greeks too. Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours. Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin. Odysseus: You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us.

View Quote Helen: I can't ask anyone to fight for me. I'm no longer queen of Sparta. Hector: You're a princess of Troy now.

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