Servant Quotes in Ben-Hur (1959)

Servant: [Presenting a gift] For the Tribune. With the compliments of Quintus Arrius. He awaits your pleasure.

Messala: The consul here?

Servant: It is Quintus Arrius the Younger, tribune.

Messala: Thank him. Bring him to me.

Drusus: I didn't know the consul had a son.

Messala: I've heard of the young Arrius. He's a champion of the great circus. Why is he here presenting me with gifts?

Drusus: Perhaps he will race against you in the games.

Messala: [opens the box and takes out a dagger] Look.

Drusus: It's magnificent.

Messala: And from a man I've never met!

Judah Ben-Hur: [enters] You're wrong, Messala.

Arabian Prince: Contact Jamal and tell him he can have the dolls, but I want the girls!

Servant: But Jamal specifically wanted the girls to be returned.

Arabian Prince: I do not take orders from Jamal! I am doing him a favor, and as payment, I keep the girls!

Brittany Miller: Oh! Dream on, Tiny Tim!

Fu Manchu: Nayland Smith again. That is very good news...

Servant: Why is it good news, master?

Fu Manchu: Because I'm in no condition to receive bad news. I shall fine you each 1000 yen.

Servant: But you don't pay us, master.

Fu Manchu: Then I shall start paying you in order to fine you.

Georges Flammarion: The ground has just opened under our feet.

Eve Peabody: Well... and me all set to jump for that tub of butter.

Georges Flammarion: We've landed in something, all right, but it's not butter.

Eve Peabody: Here they come.

Georges Flammarion: I'll stand by you as best I can.

Helene Flammarion: Ladies and gentlemen, may I have a word, please. I want to tell you something which I think will both interest and amuse you. Under our roof tonight, we have, as a guest, a person claiming one of the oldest names in the Almanach de Gotha.

[Crowd mutters]

Helene Flammarion: I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Hungarian aristocracy, but let me assure you that in all middle Europe there is no family...

Servant: Baron Tibor Czerny.

[Crowd gasps and mutters loudly]

Stephanie: Well.

Head Butler: [King Saul is smashing things and wants more] Sire, that is the last of the plates!

King Saul: The goblets, then!

Head Butler: All gone as well, sire.

King Saul: The royal pots!

Head Butler: The last went on Friday.

King Saul: Even the little ones with the floral patterns?

Head Butler: Even the little ones with the floral patterns.

King Saul: Pity, I liked those.

[he goes back into this room, then bursts out again]

King Saul: Aha! Fetch me those ridiculously-expensive porcelain figurines!

Servant: You mean Hummels?

King Saul: No, I said ridiculously expensive porcelain figurines.

Head Butler: Ah, but those ridiculously expensive porcelain figurines to which you refer are also known as Hummels.

King Saul: Hummels?

Head Butler: Hummels.

Servant: Hummels.

King Saul: Well, then. Fetch me the hummels!

All: No! Not the Hummels!

Count Karl von Bruno: Doctor, you're an expert on medical science. Isn't it true that the Ancient Romans were pain worshippers?

Dr. Meissen: Oh, yes, Herr Count. They even held endurance contests. It was a mark of distinction to suffer in silence.

Count Steiken: [Being treated for an arm wound by Dr. Meissen] Ah, naaah! Oh, no!

Count Karl von Bruno: Do you hear that, Steiken?

Count Steiken: [Screaming] Aaah, ah, ah! I'm not an Ancient Roman!

Servant: Herr Count, Mr. Beckett is here.

Count Karl von Bruno: Well, bring him in for this should amuse him too.

Count Steiken: [to Dr. Meissen] Ooohh! - You idiot! You call yourself a doctor?

Count Karl von Bruno: [Sadistically twisting Steiken's arm] And you? You call yourself a man?

Count Steiken: [In pain] Aaaahh!

Servant: [to Gerald] You keep away from here, or we'll set the dogs on you!