Gladiator

Some sought glory, fame and honor. He came for revenge.

"I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough."
"That's enough for the provinces, but not enough for Rome."

    --  Maximus and Proximo
 

"Are you the one they call the Spaniard?"
"Yes."
"They said you were a giant. They said you could crush a man's skull with one hand."
"A man's? No. A boy's?"

    --  Lucius and Maximus
 

"When was the last time you were home?"
"Two years, two hundred and sixty-four days and this morning."

    --  Marcus and Maximus
 

"There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile."

    --  Maximus
 

"Thrust this into another man's flesh, and they will applaud and love you for that. You may even begin to love them."

    --  Proximo
 

"I call it love, Gracchus. The people are my children, I am their father. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly..."
"Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?"
"No, but if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you will.

    --  Commodus and Gracchus

 

"You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you."

    --  Juba
 

"The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum. He'll bring them death and they will love him for it."

    --  Gracchus
 

"You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues. Wisdom, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance. As I read the list I knew I had none of them. But i have other virtues, father. Ambition, that can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness. Courage. Perhaps not on the battlefield but there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family, to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then, it was as if you didn't want me for your son."

    --  Commodus
 

"Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome."

    --  Lucilla
 

"I knew a man once who said, 'Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.'"
"I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?"
"You must know. He was your father."
"You loved my father, I know. But so did I. That makes us brothers, doesn't it? Smile for me now, brother."

    --  Maximus and Commodus
 

"Some of you are thinking that you won't fight. Others, that you can't fight. They all say that."

    --  Proximo
 

"Shadows and dust."

    --  Proximo