300 Quotes

Stelios: What the hell are you laughing at?
Astinos: Well, you had to say it!
Stelios: What?
Astinos: 'Fight in the shade'!

Stelios: Our ancestors built this wall using ancient stones from the bosom of Greece herself. And with a little Spartan help, your Persian scouts supplied the mortar.

Dilios: Immortals... we put their name to the test.

[First lines]
Dilios: When the boy was born, like all Spartans, he was inspected.

Statesman: [After the army starts marching in the fields, talking nervously] What shall we do?
Theron: What can we do?
King Leonidas: [Sneers] What can you do? Sparta will need sons.

Stelios: It's an honor to die at your side.
King Leonidas: It's an honor to have lived at yours.

Dilios: Xerxes dispatches his monsters from half the world away. They're clumsy beasts, and the piled Persian dead are slippery.

Queen Gorgo: Spartan!
King Leonidas: Yes, my lady?
Queen Gorgo: Come back with your shield, or on it.
King Leonidas: Yes, my lady.

Persian: A thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun!
Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.

Dilios: Immortals... they fail our king's test. And a man who fancies himself a god feels a very human chill crawl up his spine.

King Leonidas: You have many slaves, Xerxes, but few warriors. It won't be long before they fear my spears more than your whips.

Dilios: The old ones say we Spartans are descended from Hercules himself. Bold Leonidas gives testament to our bloodline. His roar is long and loud.

King Leonidas: You there, Ephialtes. May you live forever.

Queen Gorgo: Your lips can finish what your fingers have started... or has the Oracle robbed you of your desire as well?
King Leonidas: It would take more than the words than a drunken adolescent girl to rob me of my desire of you.

Messenger: What makes this woman think she can speak among men?
Queen Gorgo: Because only Spartan women give birth to real men.

Stelios: We are with you, sire! For Sparta, for freedom, to the death!

Persian: My arm!
Stelios: It's not yours, anymore.

Queen Gorgo: Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.

Theron: [Before raping Queen Gorgo] This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I'm not your King.

Queen Gorgo: [Having stabbed Theron and while holding sword into his body] This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I am not your Queen!

Captain: They look thirsty!
King Leonidas: Well, let's give them something to drink! To the cliffs!

Dilios: We did what we were trained to do, what we were bred to do, what we were born to do!

King Leonidas: My heart is broken for your loss.
Captain: Heart? I have filled my heart with hate.
King Leonidas: Good.

King Leonidas: Dilios, I trust that 'scratch' hasn't made you useless.
Dilios: Hardly, my lord, it's just an eye. The gods saw fit to grace me with a spare.

Spartan King Leonidas: A new age has begun, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.

Spartan King Leonidas: Unless I miss my guess, we're in for one wild night.

Persian General Slaughtered: Spartans, lay down your weapons.
King Leonidas: Persians! Come and get them!

Queen Gorgo: There's only one woman's words that should affect the mood of my husband. Those are mine.

Ephor #1: Sparta wages no war at the time of the Carneia.
King Leonidas: Sparta will burn! Her men will die at the arms of their women and children will be slaves or worse!

Ephor #2: Trust the gods, Leonidas.
King Leonidas: I'd prefer you trusted your reason.

[Before leaving]
Dilios: Sire, any message...?
King Leonidas: For the Queen?
King Leonidas: None that need be spoken.

[In the midst of the battle]
Astinos: You still here?
Stelios: Somebody's gotta watch your back.
Astinos: Not now, I'm a little busy!

Dilios: The captain's cries of pain at the loss of his son are more frightening to the enemy than the deepest battle drums. It takes three men to restrain him and bring him back to our own.