Drusus Quotes in Ben-Hur (1959)

1st Jailer: [looking in records] Miriam, wife... Tirzah, daughter.

Drusus: Yes, they're the ones. Are they alive?

1st Jailer: [examining the records, he is pessimistic] East section... lower level. Cell two. The jailer in that wing will know.

[Drusus is led down various passages into the lower dungeons]

Drusus: How long since you've seen them?

2nd Jailer: Never - and I've been here three years. But they're alive, all right.

2nd Jailer: [after demonstrating a slot in the bottom of the cell door] The food disappears.

Servant: [Presenting a gift] For the Tribune. With the compliments of Quintus Arrius. He awaits your pleasure.

Messala: The consul here?

Servant: It is Quintus Arrius the Younger, tribune.

Messala: Thank him. Bring him to me.

Drusus: I didn't know the consul had a son.

Messala: I've heard of the young Arrius. He's a champion of the great circus. Why is he here presenting me with gifts?

Drusus: Perhaps he will race against you in the games.

Messala: [opens the box and takes out a dagger] Look.

Drusus: It's magnificent.

Messala: And from a man I've never met!

Judah Ben-Hur: [enters] You're wrong, Messala.

Judah Ben-Hur: What has become of my mother and my sister?

Messala: It is not my duty to keep track of prisoners.

Judah Ben-Hur: Find them, Messala. Restore them to me and I will forget what I vowed with every stroke of that oar you chained me to.

Messala: I am not the governor of Judea. I can do nothing without Gratus' approval.

Judah Ben-Hur: Then get it! I will come back tomorrow. Don't disappoint me, Messala.

[he leaves]

Messala: What became of them?

Drusus: It's been almost five years. Do you suppose they're still alive?

Messala: Go to the citadel, Drusus. Find out.

Drusus: And if they're dead?

Messala: They're dead!