Quotes from The Ten Commandments (1956)

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Yvonne De Carlo
Nefretiri: You need have no fear of me.
Sephora: I feared only his memory of you.
Nefretiri: You have been able to erase it?
Sephora: He has forgotten both of us. You lost him when he went to seek his God. I lost him when he found his God.

Charlton Heston
Nefretiri: You will be king of Egypt and I will be your footstool!
Moses: The man stupid enough to use you as a footstool would not be wise enough to rule Egypt.
- Charlton Heston (as Moses / God) in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Cecil B. DeMille
Narrator: The steel has been tempered. The metal is ready - for the Maker's hand.

Edward G. Robinson
Dathan: Moses has words. Pharaoh has spears!

Edward G. Robinson
Dathan: Remember, Joshua, of her own free will she belongs to me!

Edward G. Robinson
Dathan: We shall wander north from Egypt! Do you know why?
Israelites: For peace?
Dathan: No! For food!

John Derek
Joshua: Four hundred years we have waited.
Moses: Pharaoh's soldiers will not wait so long.
Joshua: The Almighty has heard our outcry. You are the Chosen One!
Moses: I know nothing of your god.
Joshua: He knows you, Moses. He has brought you to us, and you cannot turn your back upon Him. You will deliver us!
- John Derek (as Joshua) in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Martha Scott
Joshua: Let the old woman loose!
Egyptian guard: She'll stay where she is, and you'll die in the lion pit!
Lilia: Joshua!
Yochabel: Run to the prince and beg mercy!
Lilia: Mercy from Rameses?
Yochabel: No. From Prince Moses, there on the pavilion.
- Martha Scott (as Yochabel) in The Ten Commandments (1956)

John Derek
Joshua: Praise God, I have found you!
Moses: Joshua? I thought you dead.
Joshua: In the copper mines of Sinai... the living are dead.
Moses: Sephora, bring water. How did you find me?
Joshua: A merchant buying copper saw you in the tent of Jethro.
Moses: [Moses softly tapped Josha's back] Here, you too will find peace, Joshua.
Joshua: [a stunned look came over Joshua's face, as he almost crossed his eyes] Peace? How can you find peace or even want it, while Rameses builds cities mortared with the blood of our people?
- John Derek (as Joshua) in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Debra Paget
Joshua: They told me you were dead.
Lilia: To all I love, I am dead, Joshua.
Joshua: Dathan?
Lilia: Dathan.
Joshua: Of your own free will?
Lilia: Of my own free will.
Joshua: You are no man's slave! The hour of deliverance has come!
Lilia: Not for me, Joshua.

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