Omar Khayyam Quotes in Omar Khayyam (1957)

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  • Omar Khayyam: They call you Chosen One... the Seventh Excellent Creature.Are you also to be appointed Caliph, interpreting the Will of God, Supreme Ruler above all earthly kings?

    Hasani Sabah: If it were not so, I could not wear these robes nor hold this office.

    Omar Khayyam: You have named me your Counsellor, but

    [pause]

    Omar Khayyam: I am happier with lesser matters, like this strip of vellum on which I have reduced the year to better reckoning. These figures will guide the lives of men when our mouths have been stopped with the dust of a thousand years, and the name Omar Khayyam is just as long forgotten. These figures, written on the skins of lambs, have more power than all your daggers and secret plans. Such men as you have arisen in every generation, from the dawn of mankind to our times, each with another form of the ancient conspiracy to rule this Earth. Millions of men have died to prove them wrong. What you are doing is not new, and will never be old. And when you have failed - as all those before you have failed and miserably died - it will happen again, and over again, as long as my calendar shall last.

    [pause]

    Omar Khayyam: But my calendar may not last an hour. Only sworn Assassins leave this rock.

  • Omar Khayyam: Where have you been?

    Hassan Sabbah: Cleansing my soul. Seeking the truth. You are not a religious man Omar, you are a man of science. You wouldn't understand.

    Omar Khayyam: Religious truth is not necessarily the real truth.

  • Hassan Sabbah: I pray that our paths never cross again. If they do, I would have to kill you.

    Omar Khayyam: The most excellent jihad is that of the conquest of self.

  • Omar Khayyam: Make the most of what time we yet may spend, before we too into dust descend; dust to dust, under dust to lie without song, without wine, without end. Though you may have lain with a mistress all your life, tasted the sweets of the world all your life, still the end of the affair will be your departure, it was a dream that you dreamed all your life.

  • Omar Khayyam: The more I learn, the more I realize what I do not know.

  • Hassan Sabbah: [to one of his followers] Go and jump off the wall in the name of God.

    Omar Khayyam: Surely, a man who can ask him to jump can ask him not to jump.

    Hassan Sabbah: [to the man going to jump] Stop!

    [to Omar]

    Hassan Sabbah: You're weak. I have enough men to do god's will.

    Omar Khayyam: God's will?

    Hassan Sabbah: In your world knowledge leads you to power, in mine faith is power.

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