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Quotes from the movie Gladiator
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Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained?! Is it not why you are here? Spaniard!!! Spaniard!!! Spaniard!!!
Maximus


Frost, sometimes it makes the blade stick.
Maximus


Whatever comes out of these gates, we've got a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? If we stay together, we survive.
Maximus


Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air.
Maximus


Why don't they know they're already dead?
Maximus


I am a slave! What possible difference can I make?
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


Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome. This is not it. This is not it!
Maximus


Fratres! Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line. Stay with me. If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled; for you are in Elysium, and you're already dead! Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in eternity.
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.
Maximus


At my signal, unleash hell.
Maximus


My name is Gladiator.
Maximus


You're in danger of becoming a good man, Proximo.
Maximus


Ancestors I ask for your guidance! Blessed mother come to me with the gods' desires for my future. Blessed father watch over my wife and my son with a ready sword! Whisper to them that I only live to hold them again! Ancestors I honor you and I try to live with the dignity you taught me!
Maximus


I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
Maximus


The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end, Highness.
Maximus


What am I going to do with you? You simply won'tÖdie.
Commodus


It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.
Commodus


He sleeps so well because he is loved.
Commodus


One kind word, one full hug while you pressed me to your chest and held me tight, would have been like the sun on my heart for a thousand years. What is it in me you hate so much? All I ever wanted was to live up to you, Caesar, Father. Father, I would butcher the whole world if you would only love me!
Commodus


Am I not merciful?!
Commodus


It's a dream, a frightful dream... life is.
Commodus


I would butcher the whole world if you would only love me.
Commodus


There are many forms of courage...
Commodus


I heard your son squealed like a girl, when they nailed him to the cross. And your wife, moaned like a whore when they ravaged her. Again...again and again!
Commodus


When a man sees his end he wants to know there has been some purpose to his life.
Marcus Aurelius


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.
Marcus Aurelius


Your faults as a son is my failure as a father.
Marcus Aurelius


Some of you are thinking you won't fight. Others, that you can't fight, they all say that, until they're out there. [He picks up a sword.] Thrust this into another man's chest, and the crowd will applaud and love you for it. In time, you may even begin to love them for that. Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose when, butÖwe can decide how we meet that end, so that we are rememberedÖas men.
Proximo


Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.
Proximo


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