Troy Quotes (2004)
Achilles: Before my time is over, I will look down upon your corpse and smile.
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!
Hector: All my life I’ve 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!
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.
Achilles: [Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat] Do it.
Achilles: [Briseis doesn't do anything, just stares at him. Achilles opens his eyes] Do it. Nothing is easier
Briseis: Aren’t you afraid?
Achilles: Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now.
Briseis: If I don’t, you’ll kill more men.
Achilles: Many.
Menelaus: Princes of Troy, on our last night together, Queen Helen and I salute you!
Achilles: If I hurt you, it’s not what I wanted
Achilles: Why? Are the Greeks tired of fighting each other?
Odysseus: For now.
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, and I won’t rest till I’ve burned Troy to the ground.
Agamemnon: I thought you wanted peace with Troy.
Menelaus: I should have listened to you.
Agamemnon: Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.
Menelaus: All my life I’ve stood by your side, fought your enemies. You’re the elder, you reap the glory. This is the way of the world. But have I ever complained brother? Have I ever asked you for anything?
Agamemnon: Never. You’re a man of honour.
Menelaus: Will you go to war with me brother?
Agamemnon: [approachs king] Good day for the crows.
Triopas: Remove your army from my land.
Agamemnon: Why, I like your land, I think we’ll stay. I like your soldiers too.
Triopas: They won’t fight for you.
Agamemnon: That’s what the Messenians said, and the Acardians, and the Opeians, now they all fight for me.
Triopas: You can’t have the whole world Agamemnon, it’s too big, even for you.
Agamemnon: I don’t want to watch another massacre. Let’s settle this war in the old manner. Your best fighter against my best.
Triopas: And if my man wins?
Agamemnon: We’ll leave Thessaly for good.
Triopas: Boagrius!
[cheers from Thessalian army.Boagrius comes out from the centre of the army]
Agamemnon: Achilles!
[silence]
Triopas: Boagrius has this effect on many heroes.
Agamemnon: Be careful who you insult old king.
Agamemnon’s Officer: My king, Achilles is not with the army.
Agamemnon: Where is he?
Agamemnon’s Officer: I sent a boy to look for him.
Paris: Do you love me, brother? Will you protect me from any enemy?
Hector: Last time you spoke to me like this you were 10 years old and you’d just stolen Fathers horse, what have you done now?
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.
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.
Hector: [about his baby son] I want to see him grow tall. I want to see all the girls chasing after him.
Priam: I have heard rumors of your beauty. And for once, the gossip is right.
Achilles: [to Birseis] Trojan soldiers died protecting you. Perhaps they deserve more than your pity.
Glaucus: [the Appolonians are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! You men are warriors! To lead you has been my honor!
[to Paris]
Glaucus: My prince! The boatman waits for us! I say, we make him wait a little longer!
[Trojans attack as the Greeks break down the last barricade]
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.
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.
Achilles: The gods envy us.
Helen: I can’t ask anyone to fight for me. I’m no longer queen of Sparta.
Hector: You’re a princess of Troy now.
Hector: [pause] And, my brother needs you tonight.
Achilles: You’re still my enemy in the morning.
Priam: You’re still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.
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.
Achilles: Is there no one else? Is there no one else?
Achilles: You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.
Briseis: You lost your cousin, and now you have taken mine. Where does it end?
Achilles: It never ends.
Achilles: [to Hector] Get up, Prince of Troy! I won’t let a stone rob me of my glory!
Messenger Boy: They say you can’t be killed.
Achilles: Well, I wouldn’t be bothering with the shield then, would I?
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.
Achilles: Never hesitate.
[to Briseis]
Achilles: You don’t have to fear me, girl. You’re the only Trojan who can say that.
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.
Achilles: Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn’t that be a sight?
[goes to fight Boagrius]
Agamemnon: Of all the warlords loved by the gods, I hate him the most.
Hector: I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday. And I wish it had been you. But I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
Achilles: You gave him the honor of your sword!
Achilles: You won’t have eyes tonight. You won’t have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know: this is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles.
[pulls spear]
Agamemnon: [on the death of Patroclus] That boy may have just saved the war for us.
Hector: I killed a boy today. He was young; too young.
Achilles: There are no pacts between lions and men.
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