Messenger Quotes in 300 (2006)

Messenger: Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king.

King Leonidas: [to himself: thinking] "Earth and water"?

[Leonidas unsheathes and points his sword at the Messenger's throat]

Messenger: Madman! You're a madman!

King Leonidas: Earth and water? You'll find plenty of both down there.

Messenger: No man, Persian or Greek, no man threatens a messenger!

King Leonidas: You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same!

Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!

King Leonidas: Madness...?

[shouting]

King Leonidas: This is Sparta!

[Kicks the messenger down the well]

Queen Gorgo: Do not be coy or stupid, Persian. You can afford neither in Sparta!

Messenger: What makes this woman think she can speak among men?

Queen Gorgo: Because only Spartan women give birth to real men!

Messenger: All that God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water. A token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.

King Leonidas: Submission? Well that's a bit of a problem. See, rumor has it the Athenians have already turned you down, and if those philosophers and, uh, boy-lovers have found that kind of nerve, then...

Theron: We must be diplomatic.

King Leonidas: [ignoring Theron] ... and, of course, Spartans have their reputation to consider.

Messenger: Lady... please. Help me.

La Camaleón: You and all your drug dealing compadras just derailed my pursuit, so frankly... I'm leaning in another direction entirely.

Messenger: Give me mercy.

La Camaleón: There's about three things I can give you. And they are all in the chamber of this gun. Straight up...

[turns gun sideways]

La Camaleón: Or with some flair?

Messenger: What?

La Camaleón: Straight up, or with flair?

Messenger: Whatever is the more interesting way to die.

[turns the gun upside down and shoots him]

La Camaleón: Weirdo.

messenger: Hey listen! Some great news! Chi-Hao's beat up Chen Lang down at Chen Sun House.

Han Lung: What? You're kidding.

messenger: No, no, no, I saw it happening!

Han Lung: God damn it.

Capt. Oskar Steiger: [inside the German bunker] Sir, the Americans have taken Palermo!

General Alfred Jodl: Damn!

Messenger: [after pulling up to Monty's command post] Sir, Patton's taken Palermo!

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery: Damn!

Messenger: How do I look? There are no mirrors on this side.

Adam: Fine, you look fine.

Messenger: Yeah?

Barbara: Fine.

Messenger: Thanks, I've been feeling a little flat.

[he laughs and goes through the crevice in the filing room]

Beatrice: I pray you, who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.

Messenger: He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio.

Beatrice: O lord, he will hang upon him like a disease. He is sooner caught than the pestilence and the taker runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio. If he have caught the Benedick, 'twill cost him a thousand pound ere he be cured.

Beatrice: Is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no?

Messenger: I know none of that name, lady.

Hero: My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.

Messenger: Oh, he's returned and as pleasant as ever he was.

Beatrice: I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? For indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.

Messenger: He hath done good service and a good soldier too, lady.

Beatrice: And a good soldier to a lady. But what is he to a lord?

Messenger: A lord to a lord. A man to a man, stuffed with all honorable virtues.

Beatrice: It is so, indeed. He is no less than a stuffed man.

Leonato: You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet, but there's a skirmish of wit between them.

Beatrice: Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.

Messenger: He is most in the company of the right and noble Claudio.

Beatrice: O lord! He will hang upon him like a disease. He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! If he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere he be cured.

Messenger: I will keep friends with you, lady.

Beatrice: [Chuckles] Do, good friend.

Leonato: You will never run mad, niece.

Beatrice: No, not till a hot January.

Messenger: He has done good service, and a good soldier too, lady.

Beatrice: And a good soldier TO a lady. But what is he to a lord?

Messenger: A lord to a lord, a man to a man, stuffed with all honorable virtues.

Beatrice: 'Tis so indeed. He is no less than a stuffed man.

Messenger: [Leonidas has kissed the Persian's messenger on the mouth] What the hell was that?

Leonidas: What?

Messenger: You just kissed me!

Leonidas: That is how men great each other in Sparta: high-fives for the women

[high-fives Margo]

Leonidas: and open-mouthed tongue kisses for the men!

Leonidas: Let us talk next to the giant pit of death.

Messenger: [casually] Okay.

Messenger: How far would you go for the one you love?