(When a beggar says to Conan and Subotai "A pittance to protect you from evil?")
I am evil! (laughing)
Conan
Arnold Schwarzenegger · 10 quotes
Akiro the Wizard/Narrator
Mako · 6 quotes
Subotai
Gerry Lopez · 6 quotes
Thulsa Doom
James Earl Jones · 5 quotes
Valeria
Sandahl Bergman · 5 quotes
King Osric
Max von Sydow · 3 quotes
The Witch
2 quotes
Conan's Father
William Smith · 1 quote
Conan the Barbarian quotes
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Mongol General
Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is
best in life?
Mongol
The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol General
Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Arnold Schwarzenegger — Conan
James Earl Jones — Thulsa Doom
Max von Sydow — King Osric
Sandahl Bergman — Valeria
Cassandra Gava — The Witch
Gerry Lopez — Subotai
Mako — Akiro the Wizard/Narrator
What gods do you pray to?
To Crom... but I seldom pray to him, he doesn't listen.
He is strong!, If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is the Riddle of Steel?", If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me, That's Crom, strong on his mountain!
Ah, my god is greater.
My god is stronger, He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him.
Khitan General
My fear is that my sons will never understand me... Hao! Dai ye! We won again! [Cheers] This is good. But what is best in life?
Khitan Warrior
The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Khitan General
Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!
Khitan General
[Cheers]
...That is good.
(Note that this is actually a paraphrased quote from Genghis Khan)
Food. Food! I have not eaten for days.
And who says you will?
Give me food so I have strength when the wolves come. Let me die not in hunger, but in combat.
Who are you?
I am Subotai - thief and archer. I am Hyrkanian, of the great order of Krelath.
So what are you doing here?
They said you'd come... From the North, a man of great strength... A conqueror. A man who would some day be king by his own hands. One who would crush the snakes of the earth.
Snakes? Did you say snakes?
... What is it you seek?
A standard. A symbol. Perhaps on a shield. Two snakes coming together... Facing each other! But they're one.
With... With a sun and a moon below. Black Sun. Black Moon.
Yes...
... There is a price, barbarian!
You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my PETS! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief! He raised that snake from the time it was born.
You killed my mother! You killed my father, you killed my people! You took my father's sword!
Ah. It must have been when I was younger. There was a time, boy, when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me than gold or jewels.
The riddle... of steel?
Yes! You know what it is, don't you, boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; that beautiful girl. [Points to a teenaged girl on a nearby cliff] Come to me, my child... [Beckons to her]
[The acolyte plunges from the rock to her death.]
THAT is strength, boy! THAT is power! The strength and power of flesh! What is steel, compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste... Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe. Crucify him!
Two fools that laugh at death. [to Conan and Subotai]
Do you know what horrors lie behind that wall? [to Conan]
No.
Then you go first.
[his last words]
My child, you have come to me, my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? Who gave you the will to live? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What will your world be without me, my son? My son.
All manner of pleasures and diversions were indulged. Wealth can be wonderful, but you know - success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest adversary.
All the gods, they cannot sever us. If I were dead and you were still fighting for life, I'd come back from the darkness. Back from the pit of hell to fight at your side.
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to bear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!
Civilization...ancient and wicked.
Crom! I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad, why we fought or why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom, so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!