Movie Quotes

Leonidas: The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed.

Spartan King Leonidas: This is where we fight! This is where they die!
Captain: On these shields, boys!
[Spartans cheer]
Spartan King Leonidas: Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for all time.

Persian Officer: SPARTANS! Lay down your weapons!
Spartan King Leonidas: Persians…COME AND GET THEM!

Xerxes: Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
King Leonidas: And I would die for any of mine.

Dilios: Now, as then, a beast approaches, patient and confident, savoring the meal to come.

Persian Emissary: This is madness!
Spartan King Leonidas: Madness? This is Sparta!

Spartan King Leonidas: We’re in for one wild night.

Spartan King Leonidas: We Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life.
Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known

Spartan King Leonidas: Spartans! Enjoy your breakfast, for tonight we dine in Hell!

Xerxes: There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories. Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned. Every Greek historian and every scribe shall have their eyes put out and their tongues cut from their mouths. Uttering the name of Sparta or Leonidas will be punishable by death. The world will never know you existed at all.

Dilios: Xerxes betrays a fatal flaw: Hubris. Easy to taunt, easy to trick. The mad king throws the best he has at us before war wounds and weariness have set in.

Dilios: Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known.

Dilios: Hundreds left, a handful stayed, only one looked back.

Persian: My arm.
Stelios: It’s not yours, anymore!

Queen Gorgo: Your lips can finish what your fingers have started.
Queen Gorgo: Or has the Oracle robbed you of your desire as well?
King Leonidas: It would take more than the words than a drunken adolesent girl to rob me of my desire of you.

King Leonidas: Besdies, there is no reaoson we can’t be cival, is there?
Captain: None, Sir.
[stabs a dying Persian]

Stelios: It is an honor to die at your side.
King Leonidas: It is an honor to have lived at yours.