Quotes from
Troy (2004)
Hector: You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.Agamemnon: Look around you Hector, I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores.
Nestor: You can still save Troy young prince.
Agamemnon: I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command and fight for me whenever I call.
Hector: You want me to look on your army and tremble. Well I see them. I see 50, 000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.
Agamemnon: Careful boy, my mercy has limits.
Hector: And I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.
Agamemnon: Then every son of Troy shall die.
Priam: I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.
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.
Hector: Do you know what you have done? Do you know how many years our father worked for peace?
Paris: I love her.
Hector: Ugh. It's all a game to you isn't it? You roam from town to town, bedding merchants' wives and temple maids and you think you know something about love? What about your father's love? You spat on him when you brought her onto this ship! What about the love for your country? You'd let Troy burn for this woman? I won't let you start a war for her.
Paris: May I speak? If what you say is true. I've wronged you. I've wronged our father. If you want to take Helen back to Sparta, so be it! But I go with her.
Hector: To Sparta, they'll kill you.
Paris: Then I'll die fighting.
Hector: Oh, and that's sounds heroic to you doesn't it? To die fighting. Tell me little brother, have you ever killed a man?
Paris: No.
Hector: Ever seen a man die in combat?
Paris: No.
Hector: I've killed men and I've heard them dying and I've watched them dying and there's nothing glorious about it, nothing poetic. You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!
Paris: All the same, I go with her. I won't ask you to fight my war.
Hector: You already have.
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.
Hector: You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!
Achilles: Before my time is done I will look down on your corpse and smile.
Hector: All of my life I have 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!
Hector: Tell me little brother, have you ever killed a man?
Paris: No
Hector: Ever seen a man die in combat?
Paris: No
Hector: I've killed men and I've heard them dying and I've watched them dying and there's nothing glorious about it.
Achilles: You're still my enemy in the morning.
Priam: You're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.
Paris: Pearls from the sea of Propontus.
Helen: They're beautiful, but I could never wear them, Menelaus would kill us both.
Paris: Don't be afraid of him.
Helen: I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of tommorow. I'm afraid of watching you sail away and knowing you'll never come back. Before you came to Sparta, I was a ghost. I walked and I ate and I swam in the sea... I was just a ghost.
Paris: You don't have to fear tommorow... come with me!
Helen: Don't play with me, don't play.
Paris: If you come, we'll never be safe. Men will hunt us, the gods will curse us, but I'll love you. Until the day they burn my body, I'll love you.
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?
Helen: You should not have come here tonight.
Paris: That's what you said last night?
Helen: Last night was a mistake.
Paris: And the night before?
Helen: I have made many mistakes this week.
Achilles: You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.
Achilles: [when asked why he let Hector go] It's too early in the day to be killing princes.
Briseis: You lost your cousin, and now you have taken mine. Where does it end?
Achilles: It never ends.
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!
Achilles: [to Hector] Get up, Prince of Troy! I won't let a stone rob me of my glory!
Nestor: This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.
Priam: I loved my son from the moment he opened his eyes until the moment you closed them.
Messenger Boy: They say you can't be killed.
Achilles: Well, I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
Briseis: Why did you choose this life?
Achilles: What life?
Briseis: To be a great warrior.
Achilles: I chose nothing. I was born and this is what I am.
Odysseus: [to Achilles] War is young men dying and old men talking. Ignore the politics.
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.
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."
Agamemnon: You came here so your name would be remembered in history. But Kings are remembered - not soldiers. Kings did not surrender to Achilles. Kings did not bow to Achilles.
Achilles: Maybe kings were too far behind him to see.
Agamemnon: [on the death of Patroclus] That boy may have just saved the war for us.
Achilles: [To Priam] You are a far better king than the one leading this army.
Hector: I killed a boy today. He was young; too young.
Briseis: I thought you were a dumb brute. I could have forgiven a dumb brute.
Briseis: Stop! Too many men have died today! If killing is your only talent, that's your curse. I don't want anyone dying for me.
Achilles: There are no pacts between lions and men.
Achilles: [removing his helmet] Now you know who you are fighting!
Menelaus: May the Gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds.
Messenger Boy: The Thessalonian you're fighting, he's the biggest man I've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him.
Achilles: That is why no one will remember your name.
Paris: The weather is good, Poseidon has blessed our voyage.
Hector: Sometimes the gods will bless you in the morning and curse you in the afternoon.
Paris: Do you love me brother? Would you defend me against any enemy?
Hector: The last time you spoke to me like this you were ten years old and had just stolen father's horse... what have you done now?
Paris: I must show you something.
Priam: I have endured what no one on earth has endured. I have kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.
Achilles: Priam?
Ajax: [to his shipmates, as they approach the Trojan beach] Row you whores! Greeks are dying!
Odysseus: It is not an insult to say a dead man is dead.
Menelaus: [to Paris] See the crows? They've never tasted Prince before.
Agamemnon: Peace is for women and the weak.
Andromache: [To Hector] I can't imagine life without you.
Achilles: Let me tell you a secret, something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be more lovely than you are now. We will never be here again.
Achilles: Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed
Achilles: Men are wretched things.
Achilles: The gods envy us... because every breath might be our last. Everything's more beautiful that way.
Thetis: If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten... If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years! And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again.
Hector: Yesterday the Greeks underestimated us. We should not return the favor.
Odysseus: If they ever turn my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.
Achilles: It never ends.
Odysseus: Then fight for me. My wife will feel much better knowing you're riding beside me. I'll feel much better.
Helen: Menelaus was a brave man. He fought for honor. And every day I was with him, I wanted to walk into the sea and drown.
[about Achiles]
Nestor: That man was born to end lives.
Odysseus: We need you. Greece needs you.
Achilles: Greece got along fine before I was born. And Greece will remain Greece long after I am gone.
Odysseus: [voiceover] Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?
Agamemnon: Achilles is one man!
Odysseus: Hector is one man! Look what he did to us today!
Agamemnon: Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself!
Odysseus: I do not care where a man's allegiance lies as long as he wins battles!
Briseis: Would you leave this all behind?
Achilles: Would you leave Troy?
Achilles: You were brave to fight them.
Briseis: To fight back when I'm attacked? A dog has that kind of courage.
Hector: If I die...
Andromache: No...
Hector: If I die I don't know how much longer Troy will stand.
Agamemnon: Achilles can't be controled!
Nestor: How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword?
Achilles: He killed my cousin!
Priam: He thought it was you. How many cousins have you killed? How many fathers and brothers and sons and husbands, how many, brave Achilles?
Achilles: At night I sometimes see them. The faces of the men I killed. They're waiting for me on the far bank of the Styx. They say, "Welcome, brother."
Achilles: I told you how to fight but I never told you why to fight.
Patroclus: I fight for you.
Achilles: Yes, but who will you fight for when I'm gone? Soldiers fight for kings they've never even met. They fight when they're told to fight, they die when they're told to die.
Patroclus: Soldiers obey.
Briseis: Do you enjoy provoking me?
Agamemnon: I almost lost this war because of you.
Patroclus: And prince Hector; he's as good a warrior as they say?
Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. Some say he's better than all the Greeks.
Achilles: Immortality is yours!
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