Quotes from Spartacus (1960)

24 quotes
Laurence Olivier
Marcus Publius Glabrus: How were you able to get my appointment without Gracchus knowing?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: I fought fire with oil. I purchased the Senate behind his back.
- Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus (1960)

Jean Simmons
Varinia: Please die, my love... die, die now my darling!
- Jean Simmons (as Varinia) in Spartacus (1960)

Kirk Douglas
Varinia: You like him, don't you.
Spartacus: Who wants to fight? An animal can learn to fight. But to say beautiful things, and to make people believe them...
- Kirk Douglas (as Spartacus) in Spartacus (1960)

Peter Ustinov
Lentulus Batiatus: But I'm a civilian. I'm more of a civilian than most civilians.
- Peter Ustinov (as Lentulus Batiatus) in Spartacus (1960)

Peter Ustinov
Lentulus Biatatus: [reacting to a slow servant] The sun's over there! I have to pay these people!
- Peter Ustinov (as Lentulus Batiatus) in Spartacus (1960)

Charles Laughton
Lentulus Biatatus: There's one man I hate: Crassus.
Sempronius Gracchus: You've grown very ambitious in your hatred.
- Charles Laughton (as Sempronius Gracchus) in Spartacus (1960)

Kirk Douglas
Antoninus: Are you afraid to die, Spartacus?
Spartacus: No more than I was to be born.
- Kirk Douglas (as Spartacus) in Spartacus (1960)

Tony Curtis
Antoninus: I'm Spartacus!
[everyone around Antoninus and Spartacus takes up the shout]
- Tony Curtis (as Antoninus) in Spartacus (1960)

Laurence Olivier
Julius Caesar: [about Spartacus] Did you fear him, Crassus?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you.
Julius Caesar: Me?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Yes, my dear Caesar, you.
- Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus (1960)

Laurence Olivier
Julius Caesar: Rome is the mob.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: No! Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God.
Julius Caesar: I'd no idea you'd grown religious.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: [laughs] It doesn't matter. If there were no gods at all I'd still revere them. If there were no Rome, I'd dream of her.
- Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus (1960)

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