Movie Quotes for Odysseus

Odysseus: [to Achilles] War is young men dying and old men talking.
  You know this. Ignore the politics.

Odysseus: Its no insult to say a dead man is dead.

[last lines]
Odysseus: [voiceover] If they ever tell my story let them say that I
  walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but
  these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of
  Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of
  Achilles.

Odysseus: Then fight for me. My wife will feel much better knowing
  youre riding beside me. Ill feel much better.

Achilles: Things are less simple today.
Odysseus: Women have a way of complicating things.

Agamemnon: Achilles is one man!
Odysseus: Hector is one man! Look what he did to us today!
Agamemnon: Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for
  himself!
Odysseus: I dont care about the mans alliegence, I care about his
  ability to win battles!

[first lines]
Odysseus: [voiceover] Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity.
  And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the
  centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone,
  and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we
  loved?

Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.
Odysseus: You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the
  toys the gods give us.

Odysseus: The men believe we came here for Menelaus wife, he wont
  be needing her anymore.

Odysseus: We need you. Greece needs you.
Achilles: Greece got along fine before I was born. And Greece will
  remain Greece long after I am gone.

Odysseus: [Achilles throws his spear into a nearby tree] Your
  reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.

Achilles: Why? Are the Greeks tired of fighting each other?
Odysseus: For now.

Eudorus: We were going to sail home today.
Odysseus: I dont think anyones sailing home now.

Achilles: If you sailed any slower the war would be over.
Odysseus: Ill miss the start as long as Im here at the end.

Odysseus: This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who
  fight in it.

Patroclus: Prince Hector, is he as good a warrior as they say?
Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. Some would say...
[sidelong glance at Achilles]
Odysseus: ...hes better than all the Greeks.
[Achilles snorts]
Odysseus: Even if your cousin doesnt come, I hope youll join us,
  Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours.
Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.

Green Lantern: [speaking of Dee] Look, whatever he is hes sure not
  in the same league as Grundy and the others. Hes a nobody.
Batman: Ever read the "Odyssey"? After Odysseus was caught by the
  cyclops, he told it his name was "Nobody." So when he poked its eye
  out and its friends asked who did it, all the cyclops could say
  was, "nobody."
Green Lantern: Point taken.

Phil: I trained all those would-be heroes. Odysseus, Perseus,
  Theseus. A lot of "yeuseus." And every one of those bums let me
  down flatter than a discus. None of them could go the distance.

Cyclops: What is it?
Odysseus: Its wine, thats the drink of the gods. Here. Try.
Cyclops: I like it. Another. What is your name?
Odysseus: My name?
Polites: He is the lord of [is silenced before he can reveal
  Odysseuss identity]
Odysseus: My name is Nobody. No body.
Cyclops: Alright Nobody, in the morning you will tell me more secrets
  after I eat.

Odysseus: Do you see, you gods of sea and sky? I conquered Troy. Me
  Odysseus, a mortal man of flesh and blood and bone and mind! I do
  not need you now, I can do anything.
Poseidon: Odysseus, why do you defy me?
Odysseus: Who are you?
Poseidon: It is I Poseidon, god of the wine dark sea. You have
  forfeited for forgetting how I helped you.
Odysseus: Help me? For ten years you played with us as toys. For ten
  years you let blood spill to your shores.
Poseidon: But it was my serpent who silenced Laocoon or your horse
  was doomed, yet you refuse to give thanks. You forget, a man is
  nothing without the gods. You will suffer for this offense. For
  your arrogance, you will drift on my sea for an eternity, never
  again will you reach the shores of Ithaca.
Odysseus: You cannot stop me!
Poseidon: You will suffer.

Eurymachus: [Odysseus has started to kill the suitors who are locked
  in a room with him] Wait, wait! What is our crime? We treated your
  wife as a queen. We lived off youre land, that can be replaced. We
  did not kill anybody.
Odysseus: Your crime is that you tried to steal my world. The world I
  built with my hands, and my sweat...
Eurymachus: Now, anyone...
Odysseus: And my blood. The world that I shared with a woman who bore
  me my son, and no one will ever take that from me. Now you will die
  to a man in a river of blood.

Poseidon: My goal is not to kill you. You must understand.
Odysseus: What? What? [shouts] What do you want me to understand?
Poseidon: That without the gods, man is nothing.

Ned Flanders: [as King of Troy, to Homer/Odysseus] Hi,
  O-diddley-ysseus!

Jigen: This is just like one of those quests by that greek guy. What
  was his name?
Goemon: Odysseus
Lupin: Gezhuntheit
Jigen: Now what was his name?
Goemon: Odysseus
Jigen: You ok, Goemon?
Goemon: No, I...

[last lines]
Odysseus: [about the Tardis] Your temple, as you call it, has
  disappeared!
Dr. Who: Disappeared?
Odysseus: Vanished... into thin air.