Conan
For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.
Most-quoted character in Conan the Barbarian (1982): in 10 of its 34 quotes
Most scenes with: Subotai (2)
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!
More lines from Conan
2 quotes
Conan
Does it always smell like this? How does the wind ever get in here?
Scenes with Conan
7 scenes
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?
Conan
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
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?
Conan
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)
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.
Conan
Snakes? Did you say snakes?
... What is it you seek?
Conan
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.
Conan
Yes...
... There is a price, barbarian!
Food. Food! I have not eaten for days.
Conan
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.
Conan
Who are you?
I am Subotai - thief and archer. I am Hyrkanian, of the great order of Krelath.
Conan
So what are you doing here?
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.
Conan
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.
Conan
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!
Conan
What gods do you pray to?
Conan
To Crom... but I seldom pray to him, he doesn't listen.
Conan
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.
Conan
[chuckles]
Crom laughs at your Four Winds, He laughs from his mountain.
My god is stronger, He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him.
Two fools that laugh at death. [to Conan and Subotai]
Do you know what horrors lie behind that wall? [to Conan]
Conan
No.
Then you go first.
