Gladiator quotes

60 total quotes

View Quote I am Proximo. I will be closer to you in these next few days, which will be the last days of your miserable lives, than that bitch of a mother who first brought you screaming into this world. I did not pay good money for your company, I paid it so I could profit from your deaths. And just as your mother was there at your beginning, so I shall be there at your end. And when you die, and die you shall, your transition will be to the sound of [he claps his hands]. Gladiators, I salute you.

View Quote Sheath your swords. Sheath your swords!

View Quote People should know when they're conquered...

View Quote Life is a gift from our fathers to us. Who are you to give it up for lack of lifting a spoon?

View Quote Quintus: People should know when they are conquered.
Maximus: Would you, Quintus? Would I?

View Quote [Proximo explains the story of his gladiator career]
Proximo: He [Marcus Aurelius] touched me on the shoulder, I was free.
Maximus: [laughs wildly] You knew Marcus Aurelius â€“
Proximo: I didn't say I knew him, I said he touched me on the shoulder once!

View Quote Lucilla: I want to help you.
Maximus: Yes, you can help me. Forget you ever knew me, never come back here again.

View Quote Gracchus: He enters Rome like a conquering hero. But what has he conquered?
Falco: Give him time, Gracchus. He's young, he think he can do very well.
Gracchus: For Rome? Or for you?

View Quote Marcus: When was the last time you were home?
Maximus: Two years, two hundred and sixty-four days and this morning.

View Quote [After Maximus' team defeats the Scipio Africanus legionnaires]
Commodus: My history's a little bit hazy Cassius, but didn't the barbarians lose the Battle of Carthage?
Cassius: Yes, sire. I'm sorry, sire.
Commodus: Who is that man? [refers to Maximus]
Cassius: They call him "The Spaniard", sire.
Commodus: I think I'll meet him.

View Quote Maximus: You ask me what I want. I too want to stand before the Emperor as you did.
Proximo: Then listen to me. Learn from me. I wasn't the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd. And you will win your freedom.
Maximus: I will win the crowd. I will give them something they have never seen before.

View Quote Proximo: What do you want? Hmm? Girl? Boy?
Maximus: You sent for me?
Proximo: Yes, I did. You're good, Spaniard, but not that good. You could be magnificent.
Maximus: I'm required to kill, so I kill. That is enough.
Proximo: That's enough for the provinces, but not for Rome.

View Quote Maximus: ... And you have met Caesar?
Proximo: ... Yes ... yes, I did ...

View Quote Commodus: They embrace me as one of their own. The people are my children and I am their father.
Gracchus: Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?
Commodus: [turns to face him slowly] No. But if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you shall.

View Quote Gracchus: But the Senate is the people, sire. Chosen from among the people, to speak for the people.
Commodus: I doubt if any of the people eat so well as you, Gracchus. Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius.