Egyptian guard Quotes in The Ten Commandments (1956)

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.

Lilia: Joshua!

Joshua: Run, Lilia, run! The way is clear. The master builder will not follow.

Baka: Neither will you, stonecutter.

[Joshua tried to escape, running backwards, but was captured by Baka's guards]

Baka: Bind him between the columns! See that his arms are tightly stretched!

Egyptian guard: He'll cut him to pieces.

Baka: Now go after the girl. Don't come back without her.

Egyptian guard: We'll find her.

Baka: You foolish, stupid man. I would have kept her only a short while. She would have returned to you, shall we say, more worthy. Now to whom shall I return Lilia? You will not be there, Joshua.

[saying this, Baka starts to lash Joshua]

Baka: You've seen me drive my chariot. I can flick a fly from my horse's ear without breaking the rhythm of his stride. You've seen me use my whip.

[Baka lashed Joshua again]

Baka: You make no outcry, Joshua, but you will. You will cry for the mercy of death.

Joshua: One day you will listen to the cry of slaves.

Baka: This is not that day, Joshua.

[Baka lashed another stripe on Joshua]

Baka: You hold your tongue almost as well as I hold my temper. It's a pity to kill so strong a stonecutter.

Moses: [Moses caught Baka's whip, pulled it, and turned Baka around] Death will bring death, Baka!

Baka: Who are you?

Moses: One who asks what right you have to kill a slave.

Baka: The right of a master to kill you or any slave.

Moses: Then kill me, master butcher!

[Moses then caught and used Baka's whip, choking Baka to death]

Baka: Moses!

[Baka's last line]

Moses: I'll not leave a man to die in the mud.

Simon: Thank you, my son... but death is better than bondage, for my days are ended and my prayer unanswered.

Moses: What prayer, old man?

Simon: That before death closed my eyes, I might behold the deliverer who will lead all men to freedom.

Moses: What deliverer could break the power of Pharaoh?

Egyptian guard: You!

Moses: You know it is death to strike an Egyptian?

Joshua: I know it.

Moses: Yet you struck him. Why?

Joshua: To save the old woman.

Moses: What is she to you?

Joshua: An old woman.

[Joshua was defending his Hebrew race]

Egyptian guard: Lord Prince, send him to his death!

Moses: The man has courage. You do not speak like a slave.

Joshua: God made men. Men made slaves.

Moses: Which god?

Joshua: The God of Abraham. The Almighty God!

Moses: If your God is Almighty, why does He leave you in bondage?

Joshua: He will choose the hour of our freedom and the man who will deliver us!

Egyptian Guard: Your majesty.

Cleopatra: What is it?

Egyptian Guard: A carrier pigeon from Rome.