Gold for the Caesars (1963)

Massimo Girotti: Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus)

Quotes 

• 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.

• Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : We're all slaves to one thing or another. Wine, women, power, passion.

• Penelope : Do I have your permission to withdraw?

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

  Penelope : As you wish.

• Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : She'll live. Let her stand beside the Emperor Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, you'll be surprised at her powers of recuperation. Sergeant! Yes, yes, she'll live. Only the good die young.

• Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : Lose my gold? No!

  Centurion Rufus : My Lord, is gold more precious than *life*?

• 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] 

• Guard : Commander! The Celts! They're marching on us.

  Pro-Consul Caius Cornelius Maximus) : Close the gates! Lock up the slaves.

  Centurion Rufus : How many are there?

  Guard : More than we are.

  Centurion Rufus : Twice our number?

  Guard : Four.

  Centurion Rufus : Three times our number?

  Guard : Four!

  Centurion Rufus : Close up faster!