Circe from The Odyssey: 10 Movie Quotes with Audio

Movie quotes spoken by Circe from The Odyssey, ranked by user ratings. Listen online or download free MP3 and WAV clips.

1 You witch! While I slept you turned a band of heroes into swine. -It was much easier to do than you think.

Ulysses (Kirk Douglas), Circe (Silvana Mangano) in Ulysses (1954)

2 Headstrong mortal, proud of that short dream which you call a lifetime, enamored of your weaknesses and your miserable sins, and fascinated by death.

Silvana Mangano as Circe in Ulysses (1954)

3 Why is it strange? Isn't the difference between one woman, and another only in the mind of a man?

Silvana Mangano as Circe in Ulysses (1954)

4 The sun is high. You have slept a long time. -It's been many years since I've slept on so soft a bed.

Ulysses (Kirk Douglas), Circe (Silvana Mangano) in Ulysses (1954)

5 Do not feel too sorry for them. They were not worth much. They were only little men. -That's why I loved them.

Ulysses (Kirk Douglas), Circe (Silvana Mangano) in Ulysses (1954)

6 Immortal? -This is my gift. The greatest gift that had ever been offered to a man. -No, there are greater gifts: to be born and to die, and in between to live like a man.

Ulysses (Kirk Douglas), Circe (Silvana Mangano) in Ulysses (1954)

7 To live like a man, filled with petty fears? -Only the fearful can know the value of courage.

Ulysses (Kirk Douglas), Circe (Silvana Mangano) in Ulysses (1954)

8 And old age? That poor flesh will rot one day. And at the end, nothing but death. This is the terrible heritage of man. -I accept that inheritance.

Ulysses (Kirk Douglas), Circe (Silvana Mangano) in Ulysses (1954)

9 No, the difference is Penelope would never let a stranger take her in his arms. -Not even a stranger like Ulysses?

Ulysses (Kirk Douglas), Circe (Silvana Mangano) in Ulysses (1954)

10 Listen to me. I shall give you something that will make you forget all your petty dreams, your miserable kingdom, your wife who grows old.

Silvana Mangano as Circe in Ulysses (1954)