Commodus Quotes

It's a dream, a frightful dream... life is...

He sleeps so well because he is loved.

Commodus : Quintus, sword!
Commodus : Give me your sword!
Commodus : Sword, give me a sword!
Quintus : Sheathe your swords! Sheathe your swords!

Commodus : Lucius will stay with me now. And if his mother so much as looks at me in a manner that displeases me, he will die. If she decides to be noble and takes her own life, he will die.
Commodus : And as for you, you will love me as I loved you. You will provide me with an heir of pure blood, so that Commodus and his progeny will rule for a thousand years. Am I not merciful?
Commodus : AM I NOT MERCIFUL?

Commodus : I think I understand my own people.
Gracchus : Then perhaps Caesar will be so good as to teach us, out of his own extensive experience?
Commodus : I call it love, Gracchus. The people are my children, I am their father. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly...
Gracchus : Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?
Commodus : No, but if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you will.

It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.

Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once.