Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998 TV Movie)

Peter Jurasik: Londo Mollari

Quotes 

• General Lefcourt : We took care of the Dilgar, we can take care of the Minbari.

  Londo Mollari : Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you.

• Londo Mollari : The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe... The loud ones only take the credit.

• Londo Mollari : The War. The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. Where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it; They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones, and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage. Their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns, when they ran out guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for two years they never ran out of courage but in the end, they ran out of time.

• Luc : Are you really the Emperor?

  Londo : I sometimes ask myself the same question. Yes, I'm the Emperor. Here, you see? This is the seal of the Centauri Republic. Only the Emperor can wear it. So either I am the Emperor, or I am in a great deal of trouble. Or both.

• Londo Mollari : [Speaking of the Humans and then alluding to the Minbari]  They didn't listen of course. Arrogant men never do. Sadly, arrogance has never been exclusively a Human trait. It travels between the stars like solar winds.

• Londo Mollari : What do you want?

  Luc : Tell me a story!

  Centauri Woman : Luc!

  Londo Mollari : No, no, it's alright. He did far better with that question than I did.

• Londo Mollari : I hope in your stumbling around you do not wake the dragon.

• [last lines] 

  Londo Mollari : To the future. My old friends!

• Londo Mollari : [Speaking to Luc and Lyssa Deradi]  Very well. I will give you both what you want. A story about great deeds, about armies of light and soldiers of darkness. About the place where they lived, and fought, and loved, and died. About great empires. Terrible mistakes. A true story. You see I was there at the dawn of the Third Age. It began with the humans you know. They're the quiet ones I mentioned before. They changed the universe but doing so, paid a terrible price. It began 35 of their years ago. Their home world is a place called Earth, located in a fairly uninteresting part of the galaxy. We have never bothered much of that area before. Had little military or strategic value. But as a culture grew decadent, it becomes intrigued by art, by trinkets like eccentricity. And the humans had art and trinkets and eccentricity to spare. But it was none of those traits that would cause so much death and pain. They have an expression, "Pride goeth before a fall". Their pride was their undoing. I know, I was there.

• Londo Mollari : [about the Humans]  They have an expression: "Pride goeth before a fall." And their pride was their undoing. I know. I was there.