Simonides Quotes in Ben-Hur (1959)

Simonides: Judah-Ben Hur! You've come back to us like a returning faith! Oh Judah, I should like to laugh again. Let us laugh!

Judah Ben-Hur: We will laugh.

Simonides: There will be joy again in this house! We will celebrate! Among the dust and cobwebs...

[Simonides sobs]

Esther: Why are your so certain, my father, that he is not Ben-Hur?

Simonides: Nay, child, I had never a doubt. He is Ben-Hur! Esther, all these years I have lived a lie. I am a slave to the House of Hur! For myself I care not, but if I acknowledge him, you too are his slave! Yours the decision, Esther. I cannot make it. Heiress to Simonides the Merchant or slave-girl to Ben Hur!