Sheik Ilderim: Bonehead! Give me those reins! You think you can treat my horses like animals? To drive cows and goats is all you're fit for! Get off, idiot! [he kicks the driver off the chariot]
[Christ passes, bearing the cross] Esther: How can this be? Judah Ben-Hur: [shocked] I *know* this man! [Jesus stumbles and is whipped by the centurions] Miriam: [pleading] Won't someone help him? [Jesus is whipped again] Tirzah: Pity on him! Miriam:...
Sextus: There's this wild man in the desert named John who drowns people in water.
Sheik Ilderim: Balthasar is a good man. But until all men are like him, we must keep our swords bright! Judah Ben-Hur: And our intentions true! So I must leave you. Sheik Ilderim: One last thought: There is no law in the arena; many are killed... I h...
Judah Ben-Hur: I must deal with Messala in my own way. Balthasar: And your way is to kill him. [Judah's look confirms this] Balthasar: I see this terrible thing in your eyes, Judah Ben-Hur, but no matter what this man has done to you, you have no rig...
Balthasar: Pardon me - you are a stranger here. Would you be from Nazareth? Judah Ben-Hur: Why do you ask? Balthasar: I thought... you might be the one... the one I have come back from my country to find. He would be about your age. Judah Ben-Hur: Wh...
Quintus Arrius: [a galley's 200 rowers are gradually told to increase their pace] Battle speed!... Attack speed!... Ramming speed!
Balthasar: [during the crucifixion] I have lived too long.
Messala: Sextus, you ask how to fight an idea. Well I'll tell you how... with another idea!
Judah Ben-Hur: If I cannot persuade them, that does not mean I will help you... *murder* them. Besides, you must understand this, Messala. I believe in the past of my people, *and* in their future. Messala: Future? You are a conquered people! Judah B...
Neighbor: You're not watching the soldiers, Joseph? Joseph: We've seen Romans before. Neighbor: Yes. And we will see them again. [the neighbor examines some boards which have not been assembled] Neighbor: My table is not finished. Where is your son? ...
1st Jailer: [looking in records] Miriam, wife... Tirzah, daughter. Drusus: Yes, they're the ones. Are they alive? 1st Jailer: [examining the records, he is pessimistic] East section... lower level. Cell two. The jailer in that wing will know. [Drusus...
[first lines and off-screen] Balthasar: [narrating, off screen] In the Year of our Lord, Judea - for nearly a century - had lain under the mastery of Rome. In the seventh year of the reign of Augustus Caesar, an imperial decree ordered every Judean e...
Miriam: [hesitating as they leave the Valley of the Lepers] I'm afraid. Esther: [embracing her] No cause. The world is more than we know.
Tiberius Caesar: [Tiberius Caesar sees Judah Ben-Hur, in Arrius' chariot] This man riding beside you, who is he? Quintus Arrius: The man who saved me, divine Emperor, to return and serve you. Tiberius Caesar: Is that all you know of him? Quintus Arri...
Messala: Look to the West, Judah! Don't be a fool, look to Rome! Judah Ben-Hur: I would rather be a fool than a traitor... or a killer! Messala: I am a soldier! Judah Ben-Hur: Yes! Who kills! For Rome! Rome is evil! Messala: I warn you... Judah Ben-H...
[Judah, Esther, Miriam and Tirzah enter the city to find it deserted except for a blind beggar] Judah Ben-Hur: [to Blind Man] Why are the streets deserted? Blind Man: They have gone to the trial. Alms for the blind? Judah Ben-Hur: Trial? Whose trial?...
Sheik Ilderim: [about his wives] I've got six... no, seven. Balthasar: I have counted eight, and that is because he is traveling. At home, he has more.
