Lilia Quotes in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Joshua: Here! Water lily!

Lilia: My name is Lilia.

Joshua: To me you are a lily, and I want water.

Lilia: Joshua. Joshua, I thought you'd never come down.

Joshua: Water before love, my girl.

Lilia: Does it take the whole Nile to quench your thirst?

Joshua: No, just your lips.

Lilia: Be careful, my love. Dathan's eyes can see through stone.

Joshua: Dathan is a vulture, feeding on the flesh of his own people.

Lilia: When he looks at me, I am afraid.

Joshua: If he touches you, I'll strangle him with his own whip!

Lilia: And bring death to a thousand of us?

Joshua: Is life in bondage better than death?

Lilia: Water, Noble One?

Baka: No, wine... the wine of beauty.

Lilia: What beauty can my lord find in these mud pits?

Baka: A lotus flower blooms in the Nile's gray mud. Dathan, she will do well as a house slave.

Lilia: Do not take me from my people! There would be danger.

Baka: Danger from such lovely hands?

Lilia: There are other hands strong enough to kill!

Baka: Our mud flower has a thorn.

Lilia: Oh, please, Lord Baka, I beg you!

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: You are strange to the pits. Your back is unscarred.

Moses: You bring a warm smile with your cool water.

Lilia: My smile is for a stonecutter. The water is for you.

Moses: I thank you.

Lilia: Your voice is not strange. You are...

Moses: [Moses spoke very quickly, preventing Lilia from recognizing his voice] One of many who thirst.

Baka: You there! Come here!

Lilia: That is Baka, the master builder.

Moses: Does he call me or you?

Baka: You, water girl! I'm thirsty.

Lilia: He does not thirst for water.

Slave: Beauty is but a curse to our women.

Joshua: They told me you were dead.

Lilia: To all I loved, Joshua, I am dead.

Joshua: Dathan?

Lilia: Yes. Dathan.

Joshua: Of your own free will?

Lilia: My own free will.

Joshua: You are no man's slave! The hour of deliverance has come!

Lilia: Not for me, Joshua.

Egyptian soldier: Out! Out, all of you!

Dathan: Why do soldiers come here? I put no blood on my door!

Egyptian soldier: Then stone bleeds!

Dathan: Your stonecutter did this to me!

Lilia: All your gold cannot wipe that mark from your door, Dathan, or from my heart.

Dathan: Just for that, you'll walk all the way to... Where are we going? Do you know where we're going?

Egyptian soldier: To hell, I hope!

Lilia: Joshua. We must have hope. God will send us the deliverer.

Joshua: Hope. On the heels of every hope walks Dathan.

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]

Lilia: Dathan, if you fear God, let me go.

Dathan: I am here, girl, because I put no trust in a desert god and his mud-pit prophet. I prospered because I bowed lower than my brothers before the Egyptians, and now the Egyptians bow low before me. Joshua wanted you... Baka wanted you... but you belong to me... a gift from Rameses to His Excellency.

Lilia: I will bow before you, Dathan. I will work my hands raw for you, but please, please, do not shame me before my Lord.

Dathan: Your lord is the govenor of Goshen.

Lilia: What difference to my shame?

Dathan: No difference to you, my dove of Cannan, but to a condemned slave like Joshua, it could make the difference between death on the spikes and life... in the copper mines of Sinai. What would you do to influence His Excellency's clemency?

Lilia: [sobbing] Anything, Dathan. Anything.

Dathan: Joshua will always be grateful to you... my little mud flower. His fate is better than the one that waits for Moses.

Lilia: [singing] Death cometh to me, to set me free, death cometh to me.

Joshua: No, Lilia. Death will not come to you.

Lilia: Joshua! Joshua, you risk your life in coming here. You are firstborn.

Joshua: So are you. I bring lamb's blood to mark the door posts and lintel... that the Angel of Death may pass you by.

Lilia: Joshua, it is enough that you have come to me. I am outcast among our people. Do not save me from death, Joshua. Save me from life!

Joshua: Tomorrow will bring a new world for us, Lilia!

Dathan: [pulling his cart through the parted Red Sea] Pull! Pull for your lives!

Lilia: Is your life worth so much?