The Trojan Women (1971)

Katharine Hepburn: Hecuba

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Quotes 

• Hecuba : [to Helen]  Never make gods out fools to whitewash your own evil.

• Hecuba : This is no longer Troy. And we are not the lords of Troy. Endure.

• Helen : [to Menelaus]  Am I allowed to speak against the charge? To show you that if I die that I shall die most wronged and innocent?

  Menelaus : I have come to kill you, not to argue with you.

  Hecuba : [ironically]  Oh, hear her. She must not die unheard.

• [last lines] 

  Hecuba : Trembling body... old weak limbs... you must carry me on to the new day of slavery.

• Hecuba : Count no one happy, however fortunate, before he dies.

• Hecuba : I think those that are gone care little how they are buried. It is we, the living, our vanity.

• Hecuba : [when some of the women try to help her up]  Let me be. Kindness unwanted is unkindness.

• Hecuba : [to Cassandra]  Your sufferings, my child, have never taught you wisdom.