You told me once you'd never heard the gods laughing. Listen. Listen, carefully.
— Commodus (Christopher Plummer)
16 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:30:30.347 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I offered you everything, and yet you put yourself against me.
- You could have become a god.
- Take a sword, Commodus, and I will show you. I will show you how much of a god you are.
- I will appeal to the Senate. There must some love for the empire left among them.
- I loved you, Livius. Yet now you must die. But that's the sort of joke the gods love best.
- You told me once you'd never heard the gods laughing. Listen. Listen, carefully.
- The Roman Hercules! High priest! Emperor! Father of his Country! And now, Conqueror of Persia!
- Gaius Livius is among us. Gaius Livius wishes to speak. Speak.
[...]
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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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