Gates of Fire

Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.

I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would skrew it up.

This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior among them. Into the fellow's grasp he placed the shield.

Why have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can.

If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!

I had always wondered what it felt like to die.

I have always found the spear to be a rather inelegant weapon

There is something I must tell you. When Leonidas selected you for the Three Hundred, I went to him in private and argued strenuously against your inclusion. I thought you would not fight. [...] I was wrong.

You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.