Conan the Barbarian (1982) quotes
Director
John Milius.
A young boy, Conan, becomes a slave after his parents are killed and tribe destroyed by a savage warlord and sorcerer, Thulsa Doom. When he grows up he becomes a fearless, invincible fighter.
What is best in life?
– Mongol General
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
– Conan
Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
– Mongol General
The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
– Mongol
Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
– Mongol General
To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.
– Conan
That is good! That is good.
– Mongol General
Do you want to live forever?
– Valeria
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father’s love for his child.
– King Osric
Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night.
– Thulsa Doom
Wealth can be wonderful, but you know, success can test one’s mettle as surely as the strongest adversary.
– The Wizard
Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in the earth. Once, giants lived in the Earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered. And the Earth shook. Fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters, but in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield. We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one – no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts.
– Conan’s Father
This you can trust.
– Conan’s Father
It has been surmised, that perhaps, my lord had become like a wild animal that had been kept too long. Perhaps, but whatever… freedom… so long an unremembered dream, was his.
– The Wizard
What daring! What outrageousness! What insolence! What arrogance!… I salute you.
– King Osric
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!
– The Wizard
All my life I’ve been alone. Many times I’ve faced death with no one to know. I would look into the huts and the tents of others in the coldest dark and I would see figures holding each other in the night. But I always passed by.
– Valeria
Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult.
– Black Lotus Street Peddler
He is Conan, Cimmerian, he won’t cry, so I cry for him.
– Subotai
Infidel Defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood.
– Thulsa Doom
The lions ate him!
– King Osric