07-11-2006, 08:04 PM
Here are some lines from Roman epic movies.
What films are they from and who said them. If you do not know the actor the character will do.Bucketloads of laudes points for any correct answers.
Here goes
1. "A lesson to remember - never fall in love during a total eclipse."
2. "My lady as always your lightest touch commands obedience."
3. "....out of the patchwork of conquest, one world, out of one world, one nation, one people on earth living in peace."
4. "it vexes me....i'am terribly vexed."
5."You all look very splendid, anyone of you could be king."
6."Don't put them in those suffocating tunics, let them wear.... just enough for modesty."
7."Where there is greatness, great government or power, even great feeling or compassion, error is also great. We progress and mature by fault."
8." After nearly thirty years of marriage to Julia my approaching death holds few terrors for me."
9." I speak only of Rome. And when I say Rome I mean the world."
10." I fear the glory of Rome will never be fully reached again.....Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, what follows.....a more permanent world I hope or a more permanent faith."
11." To be born in your reign is a miscalculation. But to die in it is a joy."
12." Dignity and honesty in one afternoon.....I hardly recognize you."
13." Barbaric city but fascinating or was until we destroyed it..... now it is nothing but ashes."
14."Our legions stand guard on the boundaries of civilization from the foggy coasts of Britain to the ancient rivers of Babylon, the finest fighting machines in history."
15." I knew a man who once said death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
16."Politics is a practical profession. If a criminal has what you want you do business with him."
17." Rome is an affront to God. Rome is strangling my people and my country. But not forever:and I tell you the day Rome falls there will be a shout of freedom the world has never heard before."
18."There boy is Rome. The might, the majesty, the terror of Rome. There is the power which bestrides the known world like a colossus. No man can withstand Rome, no nation can withstand her. How much less...a boy."
19."It is no accident that one small village on the Tibur was chosen to rule the world. It wasn't just our Legions.......no it was fate that chose us to civilize the world and we have."
20. The grown man knows the world he lives in and for the present the world is Rome."
21." Being a Christian these days in Rome is anything but dull."
22. "There is your great Roman army......bought for a handful of gold."
23. "I have seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and dark. Rome is the light."
24." The emperor does not approve of your countrymen. There is rebellion in the wind. It will be crushed."
25." My loyal guards. By your sullen attitude here today you have questioned steps which I have found it necessary to take, in order to preserve the imperial dignity. Now I will show you proof that my actions were justified. That treason is everywhere. That it has even shown it's face amongst those who have sworn to protect my person. In your own ranks. Let what you see now be a lesson... to all among you who fail in their loyalty to their emperor."
26." There are too many small men of envy and ambition who try to disrupt the government of Rome.
27." If both men are down and refuse to continue the fight your trainer will slit your throats like chickens. We want no tricks."
28."Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Haven't you noticed that the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin."
29." Equality, freedom, peace. Who is it that uses these words but Greeks and Jews and slaves?"
30." People should know when they are conquered."
Graham.
What films are they from and who said them. If you do not know the actor the character will do.Bucketloads of laudes points for any correct answers.
Here goes
1. "A lesson to remember - never fall in love during a total eclipse."
2. "My lady as always your lightest touch commands obedience."
3. "....out of the patchwork of conquest, one world, out of one world, one nation, one people on earth living in peace."
4. "it vexes me....i'am terribly vexed."
5."You all look very splendid, anyone of you could be king."
6."Don't put them in those suffocating tunics, let them wear.... just enough for modesty."
7."Where there is greatness, great government or power, even great feeling or compassion, error is also great. We progress and mature by fault."
8." After nearly thirty years of marriage to Julia my approaching death holds few terrors for me."
9." I speak only of Rome. And when I say Rome I mean the world."
10." I fear the glory of Rome will never be fully reached again.....Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, what follows.....a more permanent world I hope or a more permanent faith."
11." To be born in your reign is a miscalculation. But to die in it is a joy."
12." Dignity and honesty in one afternoon.....I hardly recognize you."
13." Barbaric city but fascinating or was until we destroyed it..... now it is nothing but ashes."
14."Our legions stand guard on the boundaries of civilization from the foggy coasts of Britain to the ancient rivers of Babylon, the finest fighting machines in history."
15." I knew a man who once said death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
16."Politics is a practical profession. If a criminal has what you want you do business with him."
17." Rome is an affront to God. Rome is strangling my people and my country. But not forever:and I tell you the day Rome falls there will be a shout of freedom the world has never heard before."
18."There boy is Rome. The might, the majesty, the terror of Rome. There is the power which bestrides the known world like a colossus. No man can withstand Rome, no nation can withstand her. How much less...a boy."
19."It is no accident that one small village on the Tibur was chosen to rule the world. It wasn't just our Legions.......no it was fate that chose us to civilize the world and we have."
20. The grown man knows the world he lives in and for the present the world is Rome."
21." Being a Christian these days in Rome is anything but dull."
22. "There is your great Roman army......bought for a handful of gold."
23. "I have seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and dark. Rome is the light."
24." The emperor does not approve of your countrymen. There is rebellion in the wind. It will be crushed."
25." My loyal guards. By your sullen attitude here today you have questioned steps which I have found it necessary to take, in order to preserve the imperial dignity. Now I will show you proof that my actions were justified. That treason is everywhere. That it has even shown it's face amongst those who have sworn to protect my person. In your own ranks. Let what you see now be a lesson... to all among you who fail in their loyalty to their emperor."
26." There are too many small men of envy and ambition who try to disrupt the government of Rome.
27." If both men are down and refuse to continue the fight your trainer will slit your throats like chickens. We want no tricks."
28."Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Haven't you noticed that the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin."
29." Equality, freedom, peace. Who is it that uses these words but Greeks and Jews and slaves?"
30." People should know when they are conquered."
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
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