Alia-801's Gladiator Fansite: Movie Quotes

This film has some excellent quotes in it. I'd put them all here, but it wouldn't be worth having a link to the script if I did! Here are some of my favourites though...

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity"
Maximus

"Strength and Honour"

"Do you not understand? I may die in this cell tonight, or in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave. What possible difference can I make?"
Maximus

"The time for honouring yourself will soon be at an end."
Maximus

"There was once a dream that was Rome. It shall be realised."
Maximus

"Wild ponies play near my house. They tease my son - he wants to be one of them."
Maximus

"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

"Win the crowd and you'll win your freedom"
Proximo

"I will win the crowd. I will give them something they've never seen before"
Maximus

"It vexes me. I am terribly vexed."
Commodus

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North. General of the Felix Legion. 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

"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time I do what I have to."
Cicero

"Those giraffes you sold me. They won't mate. They just walk around eating and not mating. You sold me queer giraffes."
Proximo

"We mortals are but shadows and dust, Maximus. Shadows and dust."
Proximo

"Blessed father watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. Whisper to them I live only to hold them again. For all else is dust and air."
Maximus

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