Helen of Troy (1956)

Jacques Sernas: Paris

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• 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.

• Priam : Arise, Paris. And go.

  High Priest : The virgin Cassandra does make one point that causes me much concern. Prince Paris, it appears, gives all his worship to one goddess alone, Aphrodite.

  Paris : I'm not sure I worship anything. Now, admiration is the better word. Admiration for the beauty of a marble image.

• Aeneas : To think deeply, Paris, one must think of women. They bring all life into the world and much death. They sway the destinies of men.

  Paris : Not my destiny.

• Paris : You should be in bed.

  Andraste : Oh, yes, I should. But...

  Paris : But, your mistress has sent you to play another trick on me. Hmm?

• Paris : It was just a foolish hope. I half imagined she'd come.

• Paris : I didn't really expect her to come, I only hoped.

• Paris : For the Queen, tell her she'll walk in all my dreams.

• 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 : Forgive me. I forget you are a woman - not a Goddess.

• Paris : Hector, where is my place?

  Hector : Besides your Spartan woman.

• 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.

• 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.

• Paris : Oh Goddess come to Earth. Make me a mortal with your kiss and we'll live on nectar and ambrosia...

  [kiss] 

  Paris : ... But I am not sure I like being so ethereal.