Maximus: On my command, unleash hell.

Commodus: They told me your boy squealed like a girl when they nailed him to the cross, and your wife moaned like a whore when they ravaged her again and again and again.

Maximus: If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and are already dead!

Quintus: People should know when they're conquered.

Maximus: Would you, Quintus? Would I?

Maximus: I once knew a man who said "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."

Commodus: I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?

Maximus: You must know. He was your father.

Commodus: What is your name, gladiator?

[Maximus turns away.]

Commodus: How dare you turn your back to me! Tell me your name!

[Maximus slowly turns and removes his helmet.]

Maximus: My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Maximus: What we do in life echoes in eternity.