Gold for the Caesars (1963)

Mylène Demongeot: Penelope

Quotes 

• Penelope : What am I bid? What am I offered for this splendid specimen? Patrician born, never marked nor branded. Notice the width of his shoulders. The strength of his thighs! No ordinary slave, this one, an architect, engineer, expert in rare stones and precious metals, conqueror of rivers, mountains, and noble ladies.

• Penelope : Look at me! Look at me! Aren't I beautiful? Oh, I'm so beautiful! Oh, thank you darling. You sweet pigeon. Oh, you're a love! Look! Look what he brought me. Look at the sandals he brought me.

  Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : Yes, my dear, I know. He brought me the bills.

• Penelope : [slaps Lacer, he kisses her]  Oh, I knew it. I knew it would happen. From that first moment at the bridge when you looked at me with pure hatred.

  Lacer : Isn't hatred the opposite of love?

  Penelope : The opposite of love is indifference.

• Penelope : What would I do with a slave when I have a hero? And I may have an Emperor.

• Penelope : Do I have your permission to withdraw?

  Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : I will come to your chambers later.

  Penelope : As you wish.

• Lacer : I saw you at the bridge and I saw you down here. And when you think you are not being watched, you're that most touching of creatures. A lost child.

  Penelope : Leave me alone. Stay away from me.

• Penelope : What are you offering me, architect? Love?

  Lacer : Love between slaves? Shall I tell you the horror of slavey to me? The slaves become animals and the animals learn to love their cages.

• Penelope : Is it a question of price?

  Scipio : It's always a question of price.

• Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : They're on their way. Now I shall have a little more time - for personal matters.

  [kiss] 

  Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : What is it?

  Penelope : Nothing.

  Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : That's not the way you kiss when there is nothing wrong.

  Penelope : I kept my part of the bargain. I said everything you wanted me to say.

  Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : And I kept my part of the bargain. I spared his life. Just because I make a bargain doesn't mean that I'm a merchant. Somethings I'll trade for. But, somethings I want to be given. Freely! Fully!

  [passionate kiss]