Troy Quotes

Menelaus: [Shouts to Helen] Is this what you left me for?

Odysseus: [Achilles throws his spear into a nearby tree] Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.

Achilles: If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted.

Menelaus: Princes of Troy, on our last night together, Queen Helen and I salute you!

Achilles: Why? Are the Greeks tired of fighting each other?

Odysseus: For now.

Achilles: Flank! To the flank!

Paris: Do you love me, brother? Will you protect me from any enemy?

Hector: Last time you spoke to me like this, you were 10 years old and you'd just stolen Father's horse. What have you done now?

Hector: Fight me!

Achilles: Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no-one here to see you fall?

Paris: [To Helen] Then I'll make it easy for him to find me. I'll walk right up to him and tell him you're mine.

Priam: [To Achilles] I knew your father. He died well before his time. But he was fortunate enough to not have lived long enough to see his son fall.

Hector: [About his baby son] I want to see him grow tall. I want to see all the girls chasing after him.

Paris: Father, this is Helen.

Priam: Helen? Helen of Sparta?

Paris: Helen of Troy.

Priam: I have heard rumors of your beauty. And for once, the gossip is right.

Andromache: 50,000 Greeks did not cross the sea to watch your brother fight. You know this.

Achilles: [To Briseis] Trojan soldiers died protecting you. Perhaps they deserve more than your pity.

Eudorus: We were going to sail home today.

Odysseus: I don't think anyone's sailing home now.

Eudorus: [About Patroclus] He wore your armor. Your sheild, your greaves, your helmet. He even moved like you.

Priam: I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.

Agamemnon: [Upon seeing Achilles' boat to land first on the beaches of Troy] The man wants to die!

Hector: You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!

Hector: All my life I've lived by a code and the code is simple: honor the gods, love your woman and defend your country. Troy is mother to us all. Fight for her!

Achilles: You're still my enemy in the morning.

Priam: You're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.

Achilles: [When asked why he let Hector go] It's too early in the day to be killing princes.

Briseis: You lost your cousin, and now you have taken mine. Where does it end?

Achilles: It never ends.

Achilles: [To Hector] Get up, Prince of Troy! I won't let a stone rob me of my glory!

Priam: I loved my boy from the moment he opened his eyes until the moment you closed them.

Achilles: If you sailed any slower the war would be over.

Odysseus: I'll miss the start as long as I'm here at the end.

Thetis: Your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom.

Odysseus: [To Achilles] War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Achilles: Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?

[Goes to fight Boagrius]

Agamemnon: Of all the warlords loved by the gods, I hate him the most.

Briseis: I thought you were a dumb brute. It would have been easier to forgive a dumb brute!

Hector: I killed a boy today. He was young; too young.

Menelaus: May the Gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds.

Ajax: [To his shipmates, as they approach the Trojan beach] Row you lazy whores, row! Greeks are dying!

Odysseus: It's no insult to say a dead man is dead.

Menelaus: [To Paris] See the crows? They've never tasted Prince before.

Agamemnon: Peace is for women and the weak.

Hector: Yesterday the Greeks underestimated us. We should not return the favor.

Odysseus: Then fight for me. My wife will feel much better knowing you're riding beside me. I'll feel much better.

Helen: Menelaus was a brave man. He fought for honor. And every day I was with him, I wanted to walk into the sea and drown.

Odysseus: We need you. Greece needs you.

Achilles: Greece got along fine before I was born. And Greece will remain Greece long after I am gone.

Briseis: Would you leave this all behind?

Achilles: Would you leave Troy?

Achilles: You were brave to fight them. You have courage.

Briseis: To fight back when I'm attacked? A dog has that kind of courage.

Hector: If I die...

Andromache: No...

Hector: If I die I don't know how much longer Troy will stand.

Agamemnon: I almost lost this war because of your little romance.

Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.

Odysseus: You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us.

Agamemnon: He's going to take the beach of Troy with 50 men?

Achilles: Things are less simple today.

Odysseus: Women have a way of complicating things.

Odysseus: The men believe we came here for Menelaus' wife, he won't be needing her anymore.

Hector: [To priest] Bird signs? You want to plan out strategy based on bird signs?

Messenger Boy: [Walks into Achilles's tent and sees him with two women] King Agamemnon has sent for you.

Achilles: Tell the king it can wait until morning.

Messenger Boy: Umm... it is morning.

Helen: [To Hector] All those widows. I still hear them screaming. Their husbands died because I'm here.

[From director's cut]

Helen: You're very young, my love.

Paris: We're the same age.

Helen: You're younger than I ever was.

Hector: Honor the Gods, love your woman, and defend your country.

Achilles: Speak.

Eudorus: Apollo's is everything! Perhaps-perhaps it is not wise to offend him.

[With his sword, Achilles chops off the head of the Statue of Apollo]