Odysseus Quotes in Troy (2004)

[last lines]

Odysseus: [voiceover] If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.

Odysseus: [to Achilles] War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

[first lines]

Odysseus: [voiceover] Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.

Odysseus: You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us.

Achilles: Of all the kings of Greece, I respect you most. But in this war you're a servant. And I refuse to be a servant any longer.

Odysseus: Sometimes you need to serve in order to lead. I hope you understand that one day.

Patroclus: Prince Hector, is he as good a warrior as they say?

Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. Some would say...

[sidelong glance at Achilles]

Odysseus: ...he's better than all the Greeks.

[Achilles snorts]

Odysseus: Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us, Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours.

Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.

Odysseus: [Achilles throws his spear into a nearby tree] Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.

Agamemnon: Achilles is one man!

Odysseus: Hector is one man! Look what he did to us today!

Agamemnon: Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself!

Odysseus: I don't care about the man's alliegence, I care about his ability to win battles!

Achilles: Things are less simple today.

Odysseus: Women have a way of complicating things.

Achilles: Why? Are the Greeks tired of fighting each other?

Odysseus: For now.

Odysseus: Then fight for me. My wife will feel much better knowing you're riding beside me. I'll feel much better.

Odysseus: The men believe we came here for Menelaus' wife, he won't be needing her anymore.

Achilles: If you sailed any slower the war would be over.

Odysseus: I'll miss the start as long as I'm here at the end.

Odysseus: It's no insult to say a dead man is dead.

Odysseus: This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fight in it.

Odysseus: We need you. Greece needs you.

Achilles: Greece got along fine before I was born. And Greece will remain Greece long after I am gone.

Eudorus: We were going to sail home today.

Odysseus: I don't think anyone's sailing home now.

Agamemnon: Odysseus, what news do you bring?

Odysseus: Someone left this for us.

Agamemnon: A present. Nice. It looks just like *our* horse.

Odysseus: Should I bring it inside?

Agamemnon: It'd be rude not to.

[Odysseus lays down the horse and Peabody pops out]

Agamemnon: [laughs] I did *not* see that coming!