King Eurystheus Quotes in Hercules (2014)

King Eurystheus: When the people called out your name louder than mine, you see, when they saw you as a god, how long... before they saw you as their king?

Hercules: I wanted nothing!

King Eurystheus: Precisely! Your sin, Hercules, was that you had no ambition! I can deal with an ambitious man! He can be bought! But a man who wants nothing has no price!

Timocleo di Medar: With Goliath gone, you've got a hungry jailer in those caverns. That dragon.

King Eurystheus: That's right. No one can stop us.

King Eurystheus: Goliath will not return from my cave. No one is mighty enough to try to overcome the dragon that I've placed there. No. He won't return. And Thebes, without Goliath, is nothing. I'll vouch for it. Give my word. Thebes will fall without a fight.

Timocleo di Medar: Every man here is your ally, but Medaran walls are liable to fall unlike yours which are attacked in war so often. Those of Medara are not so strong and our men cower. They tremble at the thought of Goliath.

King Eurystheus: Goliath, a dead man. They fear the vengeance of a dead man.

King Eurystheus: I didn't send for you to listen to your doubts and fears.

King Eurystheus: Remember this maiden? Her father was my ally. Stubborn and weak-minded. I changed that by burning his city. Now she's my slave.

King Eurystheus: You mean you're afraid like the rest of them?

Tindaro: No, Eurystheus. I just use my wits. But you don't depend on your brain. You're only a mass of fat and muscle; full of violence and brutality.

King Eurystheus: What else?

Alcinoe: The name Goliath scares you.

King Eurystheus: And suppose I decide to kill you right now?

Alcinoe: You have that right, Eurystheus, but then Goliath will live for only I can give Illus the filter.

King Eurystheus: Fool. What now?

Tindaro: Promises are made to be broken. I still want Alcinoe and you need Thea to reign securely.

King Eurystheus: But Alcinoe may talk.

Tindaro: She won't. I promise you that.

King Eurystheus: How can you be so sure?

Tindaro: I'll have her tongue cut out, Eurystheus.

King Eurystheus: At first it was the woman, now this boy's upsetting your plans.

Tindaro: I can't understand it.

King Eurystheus: You can't understand anything! You've never understood that it's destiny that guides us. And after this morning, I'll forbid you to work on any of these plots that don't make sense, you moron. From now on, I'll do the deciding. And I say Illus will die. That's how I'll challenge Goliath.

Dejanira: Help, please.

King Eurystheus: Did you hear that, Goliath? You like snakes, Dejanira? Snakes. They're waiting for their dinner. And they haven't been fed today, and so you'll make a good meal. Take a look at that pretty face. I'm afraid it won't be so pretty after my snakes get through with it. Oh, no. Too bad.

Emilius the Goliath: Why make her suffer, Eurystheus?

King Eurystheus: I'll tell you. I've waited for this. I want to see you down on your knees, PLEADING for your wife. Yes, pleading with me. Pray to me or I'll throw her to the snakes. On your knees and pray, Goliath. Is your pride to strong to kneel to me? Pray to me. Beg me. Beg me.