inspiring Gladiator's quotes and Best Movie lines
Commodus takes over power and demotes Maximus, one of the preferred generals of his father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius. As a result, Maximus is relegated to fighting till death as a gladiator.
Commodus: The general who became a slave. The slave became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?
Marcus Aurelius: Won't you accept this great honour that I have offered you?
Maximus: With all my heart, no
Marcus Aurelius: Maximus, that is why it must be you.
Quintus: People should know when they're conquered.
Gen. Maximus: Would you, Quintus? Would I?
Maximus: The frost.. sometimes it makes the blade stick
Proximo: And the great whore will suckle us until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more.
Maximus: Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity.
Proximo: You should see the Colosseum Spaniard. Fifty-thousand Romans watching every movement of your sword, willing you to make that killer blow. The silence before you strike and the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself.
Maximus: My name is Gladiator
Proximo: Gladiators... I salute you.
Juba: I will see you again, but not yet. Not yet.
Marcus Aurelius: I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome.
Maximus: What we do in life echoes in eternity.
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Lucilla: Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honour him.
Lucilla: Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.
Gracchus: I don't pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.
Marcus Aurelius: There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.
Marcus Aurelius: Death smiles us all. All a man can do is smile back.
Maximus: What we do in life... echoes in eternity.
Proximo: We are nothing but dust and shadows. Dust and shadows!
Maximus: At my signal..... unleash hell!
Maximus: Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe they fought and died for nothing.
Juba: Can they hear you?
Maximus: Who?
Juba: Your family. In the afterlife.
Maximus: Oh yes.
Juba: What do you say to them?
Maximus: To my son - I tell him I will see him again soon. To keep his heels down while riding his horse. To my wife... that is not your business.
Maximus: My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Maximus: Strength and honour
Juba: I will see you again... but not yet. Not yet!
Proximo: You have sold me queer giraffes.
Maximus: Maximus: Strength and Honour
Maximus: My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Maximus: Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Maximus: Are you not entertained?
Commodus: Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once.
Gracchus: I don't pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.
Quintus: People should know when they are conquered.
Maximus: Would you, Quintus? Would I?
Marcus Aurelius: Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.
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