That was excellent and funny and Imdb seems to have deleted the many, many posts about favorite quotes from this classic miniseries.
BOOOOOOOOOO!
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"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??!!"
Maximus Decimus Meridius
We could start a new one?
I'll start!
I think one of my favourite exchanges in the series is between Claudius and Agrippinilla. "You and your cups!! You've had too much wine again!!!"
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"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust." - Alan Rickman
I believe it's "you're IN your cups."
I really like Livia's send-off--"Put a coin in my mouth to pay the ferryman for the journey."
My nominations:
"Not that old chicken story again!"
"Remember my prophetic chickens and have patience."
"There can't be two greatest--that's just shilly-shallying, apart from being an abuse of the Roman tongue."
"You'd better be right, boy! I don't take kindly to that many corrections in one day!"
"It's nervous laughter. Go on with your story."
"They're all so insecure, these astrologists. They all want to be loved. Go away, Thrasyllus, you'll get no love here."
"If Zeus wanted to talk to us, he'd talk to us in Latin, not in Etruscan--what'd be the point of that?"
"Your mother never punished you enough."
"I've got a birthday coming up soon. What're you going to buy me?"
"By the way, don't eat the figs."
"I don't think you can put that kind of thing in a letter."
I'll get back to you after I've consulted with Satan.
"The difference between this great lady and myself is that her hobby is my profession. My hobby happens to be gardening, for which I do not expect to be paid."
I'll get back to you after I've consulted with Satan.
Episode Two where Tiberius and Drusus work out together:
Tiberius (about Livia): They say a snake bit her once... and died.
Later, Herod to Claudius: Trust no one, my friend. No one.
Livia to Claudius, while on her deathbed: Go on playing the fool, Claudius.
The Fabio Principle: Puffy shirts look best on men who look even better without them.
A lot of these will have to be paraphrased, but I've remembered them for many years:
I can't live on a lettuce leaf; I'm not a caterpillar.
They said your drills were bloodless battles and your battles bloody drills.
Did they really say that?!
That family is beginning to resemble a Greek tragedy.
I'm going to make you my heir...Rome deserves you!
He wants the truth and he calls it a small condition.
Livia's speech to the gladiators.
Livia about India (or what it China): Pity we never got that far; think of all things we could have got cheap.
Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?
That's her punishment. ... And that's mine.
A meta ... morphosis.
So much more but running out of time before I get back to work.
"WHERE ARE MY EAGLES?!!"
Sorry for shouting but that's how Augustus said it.
One of my favorites was "that grandson of yours could wreck the empire just by strolling through it". That made me laugh to the point of tears.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of history.
-Mao Zedong