Other Titles • Spartacus (1960) • Spartacus: Rebel Against Rome
Quotes from Spartacus (1960)
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"No, master."--Antoninus
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[first lines] Narrator: In the last century before the birth of the new faith called Christianity, which was destined to overthrow the pagan tyranny of Rome and bring about a new society, the Roman Republic stood at the very center of the civilized world. "Of all things fairest," sang the poet, "first among cities and home of the gods is golden Rome." Yet, even at the zenith of her pride and power, the Republic lay fatally stricken with a disease called human slavery. The age of the dictator was at hand, waiting in the shadows for the event to bring it forth. In that same century, in the conquered Greek province of Thrace, an illiterate slave woman added to her master's wealth by giving birth to a son whom she named Spartacus. A proud, rebellious son who was sold to living death in the mines of Libya before his thirteenth birthday. There, under whip and chain and sun, he lived out his youth and his young manhood dreaming the death of slavery two thousand years before it finally would die.
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"When I have them, master."--Antoninus (Tony Curtis)
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"Do you eat oysters?"--Crassus (Laurence Olivier)
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"Do you eat snails?"--Crassus
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"Do you consider the easting of oysters to be moral, and the eating of snails to be immoral?...My taste includes both snails and oysters."--Crassus
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"I am Spartacus."
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Spartacus: And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.
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Batiatus: A good body with a dull brain is as cheap as life itself.
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Gracchus: This republic of ours is something like a rich widow. Most Romans love her as their mother but Crassus dreams of marrying the old girl to put it politely.
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Spartacus: What's your name? Draba: You don't want to know my name. I don't want to know your name. Spartacus: Just a friendly question. Draba: Gladiators don't make friends. If we're ever matched in the arena together, I have to kill you.
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Gracchus: You and I have a tendency towards corpulence. Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin?
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Batiatus: Come with us. See to it I don't misuse the money. Gracchus: Don't be ridiculous. I'm a Senator.
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Antoninus: Are you afraid to die, Spartacus? Spartacus: No more than I was to be born.
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Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters? Antoninus: When I have them, master. Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails? Antoninus: No, master. Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral? Antoninus: No, master. Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it? Antoninus: Yes, master. Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals. Antoninus: It could be argued so, master. Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters.
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Lentulus Biatatus: There's one man I hate: Crassus. Sempronius Gracchus: You've grown very ambitious in your hatred.
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Marcus Publius Glabrus: How were you able to get my appointment without Gracchus knowing? Marcus Licinius Crassus: I fought fire with oil. I purchased the Senate behind his back.
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Lentulus Batiatus: But I'm a civilian. I'm more of a civilian than most civilians.
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Caius: Sir, allow us to pledge you the most glorious triumph of your career. Marcus Licinius Crassus: I'm not after glory, I'm after Spartacus!
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Antoninus: I'm Spartacus!
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[Crassus, as the new Consul, addresses the legions and the Senate] Marcus Licinius Crassus: I promise you, a new Rome. A new Italy, and a new Empire. [pause] Marcus Licinius Crassus: This, I have sworn by the spirits of my ancestors. This I have sworn, in the temple that guards their bones.
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Marcus Licinius Crassus: In every city and province, lists of the disloyal have been compiled. Tomorrow they will learn the cost of their terrible folly... their treason. Gracchus: And where does my name appear on the list of disloyal enemies of the state? Marcus Licinius Crassus: First.
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[last lines] Varinia: Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, good-bye.
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