The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 2

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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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11 I'm Caesar's daughter. -You're a woman... That is a much higher rank.

Lucilla (Sophia Loren)

12 No, because it's no longer profitable to keep slaves. Slaves do not produce as much as free men. Let us do what is profitable, and right.

— Timonides (James Mason)

13 He has come for me. The silent boatman to ferry me across the shadowed river.

Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

14 I had hoped that position and responsibility would make him grow up. But he is interested only in games and gladiators.

Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

15 I knew moments of happiness with her, and beauty. But she looked for love elsewhere, since she could not love me.

Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

16 In all that talk did this this topic, death slip your minds? Or did you know deep down that your wisdom would be helpless before this mystery of mysteries.

Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

17 It seems to me night whispers: Come away with me to the west, and sleep forever.

Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

18 Terrible days. I'm afraid the gods are angry. They are torturing Rome with this pestilence. Thousands have died.

Commodus (Christopher Plummer)

19 When I was a child, I had a secret fear that night would come, and would never end. That we would live out our lives in total darkness. It was a small fear then.

Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

20 As the dove fears the eagle, as the lamb fears the wolf, so is my heart heavy with fear.

Lucilla (Sophia Loren)

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