Helen of Troy (1956)

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• Helen : [seeing the Trojan horse]  Beware the Greeks bearing gifts.

• Paris : Forgive me Helen. You are two women. Both wise and good. I am two men, one fairly good, I try to believe - the other very bad indeed.

  Helen : One is a man, the other just a boy I think. Paris, let him be so always. Never let him grow old.

• Helen : Nothing endures on earth, Paris. Neither sorrow nor happiness. Or, people in love.

• Helen : Andraste, help us carry this man.

  Andraste : A man, my lady! How interesting!

• Andros : I can't risk hiding a Trojan.

  Andraste : Yes. What if he's a warrior and only pretending? You must be careful.

  Helen : Women who are always careful, miss much in life, Andraste. He doesn't seem to recover. But his heart beats!

• Helen : Be on your way. Freedom is made of quicksilver sometimes. Go, hurry.

• Helen : The Gods sometimes change the bravest of intentions.

  Paris : They are kind. I'll never doubt them again.

• Helen : This is not goodbye. You shall still be with me across the sea.

  Paris : And you with me.

  Helen : And always young, Paris, remember. What is remembered is forever young.

• Paris : Sparta is the past, Helen, Troy is this way.

  Helen : What will they call us there? A woman who left her husband and Prince turned thief. What else can we ever be?

  Paris : Two people in love, against the world, if need be.

• Paris : Helen, how perfect.

  Helen : The girl you fell in love with? Always keep that image with you, Paris.

  Paris : I shan't need to. I have the source of its magic. Right here I hold its living warmth and its spirit is always with me on the ramparts.

  Helen : Then it can't be lost, can it? What has been lived and shared is never lost.

  Paris : Never, Helen.

• Helen : People in love should not be blind. They should look to the future and prepare for separation.

• Paris : There is no escape it seems. Not even from happiness.

  Helen : No. And I am happy, very happy.

• Paris : For a moment I thought - that you were that little slave girl.

  Helen : Oh, I am. Whatever your love wishes me to be. Whatever is in your heart.

  Paris : You are my heart.

• Helen : It is the way the Gods have: to give with one hand and take with two.