Other Titles • Troy (2004) • Untitled 'The Illiad' Project
Quotes from Troy (2004)
1
Achilles: You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.
(182 votes)
2
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: That's why no-one will remember your name.
(122 votes)
3
Achilles: [to his men] Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!
(109 votes)
4
Hector: Do you know what you have done? Do you know how many years our father worked for peace? Paris: I love her. Hector: Ugh. 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 onto this ship! What about the love for your country? You'd let Troy burn for this woman? I won't let you start a war for her. Paris: May I speak? If 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 doesn't it? To die fighting. Tell me little brother, have you ever killed a man? Paris: No. Hector: Ever seen a man die in combat? Paris: No. Hector: I've killed men and I've heard them dying and 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.
(95 votes)
5
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.
(76 votes)
6
Boy: The man you're fighting? He's the biggest man I've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him. Achilles: That's why no-one will remember your name.
(34 votes)
7
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.
(19 votes)
8
Hector: All of my life I have lived by a code and the code is simple: honor the gods, love your woman and defend your country. Troy is mother to us all. Fight for her!
(20 votes)
9
Achilles: You're still my enemy in the morning. Priam: You're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.
(17 votes)
10
Priam: I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.
(14 votes)
11
Achilles: [to Hector] Get up, Prince of Troy! I won't let a stone rob me of my glory!
(11 votes)
12
Priam: I loved my son from the moment he opened his eyes until the moment you closed them.
(9 votes)
13
Achilles: Is there no one else? Is there no one else?
(10 votes)
14
Achilles: Never hesitate.
(9 votes)
15
Hector: Fight me! Achilles: Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no-one here to see you fall?
(7 votes)
16
Agamemnon: I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant. Hector: You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home. Agamemnon: We've come too far, Prince Hector. 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 on 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.
(7 votes)
17
Achilles: [to Briseis] You are free. If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted. [pause] Achilles: Go. No one will stop you. You have my word.
(7 votes)
18
Glaucus: [the Appolonians are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! It has been my honor to lead you! Come, the boatman awaits us! I say, let us make him wait a little longer! [Trojans attack as the Greeks break down the last barricade]
(6 votes)
19
Hector: You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!
(8 votes)
20
Hector: Tell me little brother, have you ever killed a man? Paris: No Hector: Ever seen a man die in combat? Paris: No Hector: I've killed men and I've heard them dying and I've watched them dying and there's nothing glorious about it.
(6 votes)
21
Thetis: Your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom.
(6 votes)
22
Hector: I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.
(8 votes)
23
Agamemnon: Empires are forged by war.
(7 votes)
24
Achilles: If you sailed any slower the war would be over. Odysseus: I'll miss the start as long as i'm here at the end.
(5 votes)
25
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.
(5 votes)
26
Paris: Father, this is Helen. Priam: Helen? Helen of Sparta? Paris: Helen of Troy.
(5 votes)
27
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.
(5 votes)
28
Briseis: You lost your cousin, and now you have taken mine. Where does it end? Achilles: It never ends.
(5 votes)
29
Agamemnon: A great victory was won today, but that victory was not yours. Kings do not kneel to Achilles. Kings do 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. I'll build monuments for victory on every island of Greece. I'll carve Agamemnon in the stones. Achilles: Be careful King of kings. First you need the victory.
(4 votes)
30
Hector: [about his baby son] I want to see him grow tall. I want to see all the girls chasing after him.
(4 votes)
31
Priam: [to Achilles] I knew your father. He died well before his time. But we was fortunate enough to not have lived long enough to see his son fall.
(3 votes)
32
Patroclus: But this is a war! Achilles: [Quietly to Patroclus] Cousin, I can't fight the Trojans if I'm concerned for you. Guard the ship.
(3 votes)
33
Achilles: [to Birseis] Men die protecting you. Perhaps they deserve more than your pity.
(3 votes)
34
Odysseus: This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fight in it.
(3 votes)
35
Agamemnon: The Gods only protect the strong.
(3 votes)
36
Achilles: [speaking to Agamemnon] Before my time is over, I will look down on your corpse and smile!
(3 votes)
37
Eudorus: We were going to sail home today. I don't think anyone's sailing home now.
(3 votes)
38
Messenger Boy: They say you can't be killed. Achilles: Well, I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
(3 votes)
39
Achilles: [when asked why he let Hector go] It's too early in the day to be killing princes.
(3 votes)
40
Paris: [discussing the wooden horse] Father, burn it.
(2 votes)
41
Achilles: [to Hector] We will meet again my brother.
(2 votes)
42
Agamemnon: [upon seeing Achilles' boat to land first on the beaches of Troy] The man wants to die!
(2 votes)
43
Priam: Do you love her, my son? 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.
(2 votes)
44
Eudorus: [about Patroclus] He wore your armor. Your sheild, your greaves, your helmet. He even moved like you.
(1 vote)
45
Nestor: This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.
(1 vote)
46
Triopas: You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon. Its too big... even for you.
(3 votes)
47
Paris: Brother, do you love me? Hector: The last time you asked me that, you were 10 years old and you have just stolen father's horse. What have you done now?
(1 vote)
48
Paris: [to Helen] Then I'll make it easy for him to find me. I'll walk right up to him and tell him you're mine.
(3 votes)
49
Andromache: 50,000 men did not come to watch your brother fight. You know this.
50
Paris: Pearls from the sea of Propontus. Helen: They're beautiful, but I could never 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.
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