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How costly that is! How wasteful!

3 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:53:16.564 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- A hundred times we have taught those we have called barbarians what it means to make war with Rome.

- We've burned their villages, we've crucified their leaders, we've enslaved their young.

- Fires go out, the dead are buried, the slaves die, slowly. But their hatred that we leave behind us never dies!

- Hatred means wars.

- Wars mean tribute torn from our provinces, taxes, hunger, disease.

- How costly that is! How wasteful!

- And yet the answer is simple. We must have no war.

- No war? When your friends continually attack us.

- This is treason!

- These people have proved their aims very clearly. To destroy us, and to destroy the whole Roman way of life.

- And yet, the answer is simple.

[...]

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Sound Clip

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Memorable quotes from the 1964 film The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Alec Guinness (Marcus Aurelius), Christopher Plummer (Commodus), Sophia Loren (Lucilla), Stephen Boyd (Livius), James Mason (Timonides)

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