Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

Ramon Novarro: Ben-Hur

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Quotes 

• Arrius : A galley slave wanting to live! How long have you been at the oars?

  Ben-Hur : In your calendar, three years - - in mine, three centuries!

  Arrius : What has kept you alive?

  Ben-Hur : I live for revenge!

  Arrius : Spoken like a Roman!

  Ben-Hur : I am a Jew!

• Ben-Hur : It is good to have you back, Messala - - a Roman who understands my people...

  Messala : Rome rules the peoples she has conquered. It is for them to understand Rome!

  [Ben-Hur frowns] 

  Messala : I meant no offense, Judah. But your stiff-necked race must learn submission to your masters!

• Ben-Hur : In outward seeming you are the same. But in spirit - - you are a stranger.

• Ben-Hur : Oh, Lord, in the hour of thy vengeance - - mine be the hand to put it on him!

• Ben-Hur : I am Judah, Ben-Hur!

• Ben-Hur : I will drive your chariot! Not as Arrius the Roman, racing for glory - but as the unknown, driving for revenge!

  Sheik Ilderim : Come, then, for time does not loiter and we have much to do!

• Ben-Hur : I crave your pardon...