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The Ten Commandments (1956 film) Quotes

The Ten Commandments (1956 film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . The Ten Commandments stopped airing in 1970.

It features Cecil B. DeMille as producer, Elmer Bernstein in charge of musical score, and Loyal Griggs as head of cinematography.

The Ten Commandments (1956 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Ten Commandments (1956 film) is 220 minutessfn The Ten Commandments (1956 film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Charlton Heston as Moses, Vincent Price as Baka, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Martha Scott as Yochabel, Nina Foch as Bithiah, John Derek as Joshua, Debra Paget as Lilia, Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Judith Anderson as Memnet, Tommy Duran as Gershom, Olive Deering as Miriam, John Carradine as Aaron, Douglass Dumbrille as Jannes, Francis McDonald as Simon, Eduard Franz as Jethro, John Miljan as The Blind One, Donald Curtis as Mered, Henry Wilcoxon as Pentaur, and Frank de Kova as Abiram.

The Ten Commandments (1956 film) Quotes

Edward G. Robinson as Dathan

  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Now look for the first time, Abiram, upon the Governor of Goshen."
  • (Frank de Kova) "Dathan, my brother, you have the favor of the Lord."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "I prefer the gratitude of the Prince."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "There are those who would pay much for what my eyes have seen."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Do you haggle with me like a seller of melons in the marketplace?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "No, I will not haggle, Great Prince; here's your money. But for ten talents of fine gold, I'll give you the wealth of Egypt. Give me my freedom, and I'll give you the scepter. Give me the water girl Lilia, and I'll give you the princess of your heart's desire. Give me this house of Baka, and I'll give you the throne. Give me all that I ask -- or give me leave to go."
  • (Yul Brynner) "I will give you more than leave to go; I will send you where you belong."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "I belong in your service, Glorious One."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Very well, I will bargain with you. If what you say pleases me, I will give you your price, all of it; if not, I will give you the point of this blade through your lying throat, agreed?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Agreed; the deliverer -- is Moses."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Draw one more breath to tell me why Moses or any other Egyptian would deliver the Hebrews?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Moses is not Egyptian; he's Hebrew, the son of slaves."
  • (Yul Brynner) "I will pay your price."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Moses has words. Pharaoh has spears."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Where could I bring you except to Egypt?"
  • (Unnamed) "Where there is death?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "No, where there's food."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Pull. Pull for your lives."
  • (Debra Paget) "Is your life worth so much?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "For ten talents of gold, I'll give you the wealth of Egypt. Give me my freedom and I'll give you the scepter. Give me the water girl, Lillia, and I'll give you the princess of your heart's desire. Give me this house of Baka's and I'll give you the throne. Give me all that I ask -- or give me leave to go."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Remember, Joshua, of her own free will, she's mine."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Joshua's strength didn't kill the master builder."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Now speaks the rat that would be my ears."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Too many ears tie a rat's tongue."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Go, all of you."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Well -- who killed him?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "I am a poor man, Generous One; what I bring is worth much."
  • (Yul Brynner) "I have paid you much, and you have brought me nothing."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Now I bring you the world -- true Son of Pharaoh."
  • (Yul Brynner) "You offer me the world when you cannot even bring me the deliverer. Who killed Baka?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "The deliverer."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Would you play at words with me?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "No, Lord Prince."
  • (Yul Brynner) "And this murderer has now fled to some distant land?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "No, Lord Prince."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Name him."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "One who made himself a prince and judge over us; and if he knew I were here, he would kill me as he killed the Egyptian."
  • (Yul Brynner) "I will hang you myself if you tire me further."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "There are those who would pay much for what my eyes have seen."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Do you haggle with me like a seller of melons in the marketplace?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "No, I will not haggle, Great Prince; here's your money. But for ten talents of fine gold, I'll give you the wealth of Egypt. Give me my freedom, and I'll give you the scepter. Give me the water girl Lilia, and I'll give you the princess of your heart's desire. Give me this house of Baka, and I'll give you the throne. Give me all that I ask -- or give me leave to go."
  • (Yul Brynner) "I will give you more than leave to go; I will send you where you belong."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "I belong in your service, Glorious One."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Very well, I will bargain with you. If what you say pleases me, I will give you your price, all of it; if not, I will give you the point of this blade through your lying throat, agreed?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Agreed; the deliverer -- is Moses."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Draw one more breath to tell me why Moses or any other Egyptian would deliver the Hebrews?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Moses is not Egyptian; he's Hebrew, the son of slaves."
  • (Egyptian soldier) "Out. Out, all of you."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Why do soldiers come here? I put no blood on my door."
  • (Egyptian soldier) "Then stone bleeds."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Your stonecutter did this to me."
  • (Debra Paget) "All your gold cannot wipe that mark from your door, Dathan, or from my heart."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Just for that, you'll walk all the way to -- Where are we going? Do you know where we're going?"
  • (Egyptian soldier) "To hell, I hope."

Nina Foch as Bithiah

  • (Nina Foch) "I am the Pharaoh's daughter, and this is my son. He shall be reared in my house as the prince of the two lands."
  • (Judith Anderson) "My mother and her mother before her were branded into the Pharaoh's service. I will not see you make this son of slaves a prince of Egypt."
  • (Nina Foch) "You will see it, Memnet. You will see him walk with his head among the eagles, and you will serve him as you serve me. Fill the ark with water. Sink it into silence."
  • (Nina Foch) "Raise your hands, Memnet. What you have buried in the Nile shall remain buried in your heart. Swear it."
  • (Judith Anderson) "I will be silent."
  • (Nina Foch) "The day you break that oath will be the last your eyes shall ever see."
  • (Nina Foch) "You will be the glory of Egypt, my son, mighty in words and deeds. Kings shall bow before you. Your name will live when the pyramids are dust. And -- because I drew you from the water, you shall be called "Moses.""
  • (Nina Foch) "Moses. Moses. Moses."
  • (Nina Foch) "Moses, do not enter. There is only sorrow here."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Are you comforting it, my mother? I followed you here to find this woman Yochabe --"
  • (Charlton Heston) "You were the woman who was caught between the stones."
  • (Martha Scott) "Until you came."
  • (Nina Foch) "My son, if you love me, you will --"
  • (Charlton Heston) "I love you, my mother, but am I your son --"
  • (Charlton Heston) "or yours?"
  • (Martha Scott) "No, you are not my son. If you believe that men and women are cattle to be driven under the lash, if you can bow before idols of stone and golden images of beasts, you are not my son."
  • (Nina Foch) "A conquerer, already conquered?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "The first face I look for and the last I find."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Mother."
  • (Nina Foch) "I was thanking the gods for your safe return. But I find you in grave danger here."
  • (Charlton Heston) "An intoxicating danger, mother."
  • (Nina Foch) "Marry her if you can, my son, but never fall in love with her."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Oh, I'll be less trouble to him than the Hebrew slaves of Goshen."
  • (Nina Foch) "Goshen?"
  • (Nina Foch) "They're going away, Moses, and the secret's going with them. No one need ever know the shame I brought upon you."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Shame? What change is there in me? Egyptian or Hebrew, I am still Moses. These are the same hands, the same arms, the same face that was mine a moment ago."
  • (Martha Scott) "A moment ago you were her son, the strength of Egypt. Now you are my son, a slave of Egypt. You find no shame in this?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "If there is no shame in me, how can I feel shame for the woman who bore me, or the race that bred me?"
  • (Nina Foch) "They will stop for me."
  • (Donald Curtis) "A charging chariot knows no rank."
  • (Nina Foch) "Your tongue will dig your grave, Memnet."

Anne Baxter as Nefretiri

  • (Anne Baxter) "But I have saved your son, Moses."
  • (Charlton Heston) "It is not my son who will die. It is -- it is the firstborn of Egypt. It is your son, Nefretiri."
  • (Anne Baxter) "No. You would not dare strike Pharaoh's son."
  • (Charlton Heston) "In the hardness of his heart, Pharaoh has mocked God and brings death to his own son."
  • (Anne Baxter) "But he is my son, Moses. You would not harm my son."
  • (Charlton Heston) "By myself, I am nothing. It is the power of God which uses me to work His will."
  • (Anne Baxter) "You would not let Him do this to me. I saved your son."
  • (Charlton Heston) "I cannot save yours."
  • (Rameses' son) "Mother. Mother. He turned his staff into a cobra."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Nothing of his, will harm you my son."
  • (Yul Brynner) "The power of your god is a cheap magicians trick. Jannes."
  • (Anne Baxter) "How many more days and nights will you pray? Does he hear you?"
  • (Yul Brynner) "Dread Lord of Darkness, I have raised my voice to you, yet life has not come to the body of my son. Hear me."
  • (Anne Baxter) "He cannot hear you. He's nothing but a piece of stone with the head of a bird."
  • (Yul Brynner) "He will hear me. For I am Egypt."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Egypt? You are nothing. You let Moses kill my son. No god can bring him back. What have you done to Moses? How did he die? Did he cry for mercy when you tortured him? Bring me to his body. I want to see it, Rameses. I want to see it."
  • (Yul Brynner) "This is my son. He would have been Pharaoh. He would have ruled the world. Who mourns him now? Not even you. All you can think of is Moses. You will not see his body. I drove him out of Egypt. I cannot fight the power of his God."
  • (Anne Baxter) "His God? The priests say that Pharaoh is a god, but you are not a god. You are even less than a man. Listen to me, Rameses. You thought I was evil when I went to Moses, and you were right. Shall I tell you what happened, Rameses? He spurned me like a strumpet in the street. I, Nefretiri, Queen of Egypt. All that you wanted from me he would not even take. Do you hear laughter, Pharaoh? Not the laughter of kings, but the laughter of slaves on the desert."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever. My armor. The war crown. Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment. They shall remember the name of Moses, only that he died under my chariot wheels."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Kill him with your own hands."
  • (Anne Baxter) "You need have no fear of me."
  • (Sephora) "I feared only his memory of you."
  • (Anne Baxter) "You have been able to erase it."
  • (Sephora) "He has forgotten both of us. You lost him when he went to seek his God. I lost him when he found his God."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Did you think my kiss was a promise of what you'll have. No, my pompous one. It was to let you know what you will not have. I could never love you."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Does that matter? You will be my wife. You will come to me whenever I call you, and I will enjoy that very much. Whether you enjoy it or not is your own affair -- but I think you will."
  • (Anne Baxter) "I think I see him. No -- Moses."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Does the world bow to an empty throne?"
  • (Yul Brynner) "Empty?"
  • (Anne Baxter) "Does a Pharaoh harden his heart against his son? If you let the Hebrews go, who will build his cities? You told Moses to make bricks without straw. Now he tells you to make cities without bricks. Who is the slave and who is the Pharaoh? Do you hear laughter, Rameses? Yes, the laughter of kings -- in Babylon, in Canaan, in Troy -- as Egypt surrenders to the God of slaves."
  • (Anne Baxter) "If you want to help your people, come back to the palace."
  • (Charlton Heston) "And hide the truth from Sethi -- that I am Hebrew and a slave?"
  • (Anne Baxter) "The truth would break his dear old heart and send Bithiah into exile or death. Think of us and stop hearing the cries of your people."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Their God does not hear their cry."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Will Rameses hear it if he is Pharaoh? No. He would grind them into the clay they mold, double their labors. What about me? Think of me as his wife. Do you want to see me in Rameses' arms?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "No."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Then come back with me."
  • (Anne Baxter) "You will be king of Egypt, and I will be your footstool."
  • (Charlton Heston) "The man stupid enough to use you as a footstool would not be wise enough to rule Egypt."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Oh, Moses, Moses, why of all men did I fall in love with a prince of fools?"
  • (Anne Baxter) "Bring it back to me, stained with his blood."
  • (Yul Brynner) "I will -- to mingle with your own."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Don't exhaust yourself, Great One. Dear Great One."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Why not, kitten? You are the only thing I regret leaving. You have been my joy."
  • (Anne Baxter) "And you my only love."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Aha. Now you're cheating. There was another. I know. I loved him, too. With my last breath, I'll break my own law and speak the name of -- Moses."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Moses."

Charlton Heston as Moses

  • (Charlton Heston) "Your wish is my will."
  • (Charlton Heston) "It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a god."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Let your own image proclaim my loyalty for a thousand years."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Superb."
  • (Charlton Heston) "You know it is death to strike an Egyptian?"
  • (John Derek) "I know it."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Yet you struck him. Why?"
  • (John Derek) "To save the old woman."
  • (Charlton Heston) "What is she to you?"
  • (John Derek) "An old woman."
  • (Egyptian guard) "Lord Prince, send him to his death."
  • (Charlton Heston) "The man has courage. You do not speak like a slave."
  • (John Derek) "God made men. Men made slaves."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Which god?"
  • (John Derek) "The God of Abraham. The Almighty God."
  • (Charlton Heston) "If your God is Almighty, why does He leave you in bondage?"
  • (John Derek) "He will choose the hour of our freedom and the man who will deliver us."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Let my people go."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Would you bury the old woman alive in a tomb of rock?"
  • (Martha Scott) "Wise and noble One, It caught. I have not the strength to free myself."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Your shoulders should not bear a burden, old woman."
  • (Martha Scott) "The Lord has renewed my strength and lightened my burdens."
  • (Charlton Heston) "He would have done better to remove them."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Bithiah."
  • (Nina Foch) "In fear of your God, they have set me free. May a stranger enter?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "There are no strangers among those who seek God's mercy."
  • (Nina Foch) "My bearers?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "All who thirst for freedom may come with us. The darkness of death will pass over us tonight, and tomorrow the light of freedom will shine upon us as we go forth from Egypt."
  • (Nina Foch) "I shall go with you, Moses."
  • (Olive Deering) "A princess of Egypt?"
  • (John Carradine) "An Egyptian?"
  • (Olive Deering) "An idol worshipper."
  • (Charlton Heston) "This woman drew me from the Nile and set my feet upon the path of knowledge. Mered, bring a chair to our table for the daughter of Pharaoh."
  • (Nina Foch) "There is a great light that shines from your face, Moses. Perhaps someday I shall come to understand it."
  • (Charlton Heston) "The Lord of Hosts will do battle for us. Behold His mighty hand."
  • (Charlton Heston) "There is a beauty beyond the senses, Nefretiri, beauty like the quiet of green valleys and still waters, beauty of the spirit that you cannot understand."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Never did a lost sheep have so many shepherds."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Great one, I bring you Ethiopia."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Command them to kneel before Pharaoh."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Command what you have conquered, my brother."
  • (Charlton Heston) "What has this child to do with me? Tell me."
  • (Anne Baxter) "A child was wrapped in it."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Who was this child?"
  • (Anne Baxter) "Bithiah drew him from the river. Memnet was with her."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Who was this child?"
  • (Anne Baxter) "Memnet is dead. No one needs know who you are. I love you. I killed for you. I'll kill anyone who comes between us."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Why did you kill for me, Nefretiri? If you love me, do not lie."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Hold me in your arms. Hold me close. You were not born prince of Egypt, Moses. You are the son of Hebrew slaves."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Love can not drown truth, Nefretiri. You do believe it, or you would not have killed Memnet."
  • (Anne Baxter) "I love you. That's the only truth, I know."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Did this child, of the Nile, have a mother?"
  • (Anne Baxter) "Memnet called her Yochabel."
  • (Charlton Heston) "I will ask Bithiah."
  • (Nina Foch) "How could you doubt me? You did not doubt me, as you took your first step. It's a wicked lie, spun by Rameses."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Did Rameses spin this?"
  • (Nina Foch) "The word of your mother, against a piece of cloth found by Memnet?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "How did you know it was Memnet?"
  • (Nina Foch) "Who else? Memnet nursed Rameses. She will pay, for spreading his lies."
  • (Charlton Heston) "She has paid."
  • (Nina Foch) "She is dead?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "At the hand of Nefretiri."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Memnet spoke of a woman named Yochabel. Did you ever know her?"
  • (Nina Foch) "No."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Yours, was the face I saw, above my cradle. The only mother, I've ever known. Wherever I am led and whatever, I must do, I will always love you."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Moses. Moses."
  • (Charlton Heston) "I am here, Lord."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place thou standest is holy ground. I am the god of your fathers, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac and the god of Jacob."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Lord -- Lord, why do you not hear the cries of their children in the bondage of Egypt?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt and I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. Therefore, I will send thee, Moses, unto Pharoah, that thou mayest bring my people out of Egypt."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Who am I, Lord, that you should send me? How can I lead this people out of bondage? What words can I speak that they will heed?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "I will teach thee what thou wilt say. When thou hast brought forth the people. They shall serve me upon this mountain. I will put my laws into their hearts, and into their minds will I write them. Now, therefore, go and I will be with thee."
  • (Charlton Heston) "But if I say to your children that the god of their fathers has sent me, they will ask "What is his name?" How shall I answer them?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "I am, that I am. Thou shalt say "I am" hath sent me unto you."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Go, proclaim liberty throughout all the lands, unto all the inhabitants thereof."
  • (Sephora) "I do not know about such things, but I do know that the mountain rumbles when God is there, and the earth trembles, and the cloud is red with fire."
  • (Charlton Heston) "At such a time, has any man ever gone to see Him, face-to-face?"
  • (Sephora) "No man has ever set foot on the forbidden slopes of Sinai. Why do you want to see Him, Moses?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "To know that He is. And if He is, to know why He has not heard the cries of slaves in bondage."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Yes. You may be the lovely dust through which God will work His purpose."
  • (Charlton Heston) "After this day you shall see his chariots no more."
  • (Charlton Heston) "No son could have more love for you than I."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Then why are you forcing me to destroy you? What evil has done this to you?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and strength; only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Pharoah is pleased?"
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "With the obelisk, yes. But not with certain accusations made against you."
  • (Charlton Heston) "By whom?"
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "You raided the temple granaries?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "Yes."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "You gave the grain to the slaves?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "Yes."
  • (Yul Brynner) "You gave them one day in seven to rest."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Yes."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Did you do all this to gain their favor?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "A city is built of brick, Pharoah. The strong make many, the starving make few. The dead make none. So much for accusations."
  • (Jethro's daughter) "Is it true that Egyptian girls paint their eyes?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "Yes, but very few have eyes as beautiful as yours."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Will you swear in the name of this God that you are not my mother?"
  • (Martha Scott) "We do not even know His name."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Then look into my eyes and tell me you are not my mother."
  • (Martha Scott) "Oh, Moses, Moses, I cannot. I cannot."
  • (Sephora) "Which of my sisters did you choose?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "I made no choice, Sephora."
  • (Sephora) "She was very beautiful, wasn't she? This woman of Egypt, who left her scar upon your heart. Her skin was white as curd, her eyes green as the cedars of Lebanon, her lips, tamarisk honey. Like the breast of a dove, her arms were soft -- and the wine of desire was in her veins."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Yes. She was beautiful -- as a jewel."
  • (Sephora) "A jewel has brilliant fire, but it gives no warmth. Our hands are not so soft, but they can serve. Our bodies not so white, but they are strong. Our lips are not perfumed, but they speak the truth. Love is not an art to us. It's life to us. We are not dressed in gold and fine linen. Strength and honor are our clothing. Our tents are not the columned halls of Egypt, but our children play happily before them. We can offer you little -- but we offer all we have."
  • (Charlton Heston) "I have not little, Sephora. I have nothing."
  • (Sephora) "Nothing from some -- is more than gold from others."
  • (Charlton Heston) "You would fill the emptiness of my heart?"
  • (Sephora) "I could never fill all of it, Moses, but I shall not be jealous of a memory."

Yul Brynner as Rameses

  • (Yul Brynner) "You are going to be mine, all mine, like my dog or my horse or my falcon. Only I will love you more and trust you less."
  • (Rameses' son) "My father."
  • (Yul Brynner) "My son."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Your own curse is on him."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Let him rave on, that men will know him mad."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Here is your king's scepter, and here is your kingdom, with the scorpion, the cobra, and the lizard for subjects. Free them, if you will. Leave the Hebrews to me."
  • (Yul Brynner) "His god; IS God."
  • (Yul Brynner) "You have rats' ears and a ferret's nose."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "To use in your service, son of Pharaoh."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Add to them the eyes of a weasel and find me this deliverer."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Did you lose your head, my sweet?"
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "I sent you to Goshen to bring me the head of the jackal who would free the slaves. Where is it?"
  • (Yul Brynner) "The slaves do not need a deliver now. They have Moses."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Is that a riddle?"
  • (Yul Brynner) "He gives them the priests' grain and one day in seven to rest. They call it "The Day of Moses.""
  • (Douglass Dumbrille) "This man makes himself a god."
  • (Anne Baxter) "I prefer him as a man."
  • (Yul Brynner) "You would prefer him as Pharaoh."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Are you afraid of Moses?"
  • (Yul Brynner) "Yes, because now he holds Ethiopia in his left hand, Goshen in right, and you, my Pharaoh, are in-between them."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Do you imply that he would raise the slaves against me? I've been his father."
  • (Douglass Dumbrille) "Ambition knows no father."
  • (Anne Baxter) "Moses could no more betray you than I could, Sethi."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "He can tell me that when he arrives."
  • (Yul Brynner) "He will not be here, my father."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "What? I sent for both of you."
  • (Yul Brynner) "His word is that he cannot attend you, being pressed by other matters."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Did you hear that? Other matters?"
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "My escort. I will ride with you, my son, to see what rears itself in Goshen -- a city or treason."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Do you haggle with me like a seller of melons in the marketplace?"

Debra Paget as Lilia

  • (Debra Paget) "Joshua."
  • (John Derek) "Run, Lilia, run. The way is clear. The master builder will not follow."
  • (Vincent Price) "Neither will you, stonecutter."
  • (Vincent Price) "Bind him between the columns. See that his arms are tightly stretched."
  • (Egyptian guard) "He'll cut him to pieces."
  • (Vincent Price) "Now go after the girl. Don't come back without her."
  • (Egyptian guard) "We'll find her."
  • (Vincent Price) "You foolish, stupid man. I would have kept her only a short while. She would have returned to you, shall we say, more worthy. Now to whom shall I return Lilia? You will not be there, Joshua."
  • (Vincent Price) "You've seen me drive my chariot. I can flick a fly from my horse's ear without breaking the rhythm of his stride. You've seen me use my whip."
  • (Vincent Price) "You make no outcry, Joshua, but you will. You will cry for the mercy of death."
  • (John Derek) "One day you will listen to the cry of slaves."
  • (Vincent Price) "This is not that day, Joshua."
  • (Vincent Price) "You hold your tongue almost as well as I hold my temper. It's a pity to kill so strong a stonecutter."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Death will bring death, Baka."
  • (Vincent Price) "Who are you?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "One who asks what right you have to kill a slave."
  • (Vincent Price) "The right of a master to kill you or any slave."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Then kill me, master butcher."
  • (Vincent Price) "Moses."
  • (Debra Paget) "Dathan, if you fear God, let me go."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "I am here, girl, because I put no trust in a desert god and his mud-pit prophet. I prospered because I bowed lower than my brothers before the Egyptians, and now the Egyptians bow low before me. Joshua wanted you -- Baka wanted you -- but you belong to me -- a gift from Rameses to His Excellency."
  • (Debra Paget) "I will bow before you, Dathan. I will work my hands raw for you, but please, please, do not shame me before my Lord."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Your lord is the govenor of Goshen."
  • (Debra Paget) "What difference to my shame?"
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "No difference to you, my dove of Cannan, but to a condemned slave like Joshua, it could make the difference between death on the spikes and life -- in the copper mines of Sinai. What would you do to influence His Excellency's clemency?"
  • (Debra Paget) "Anything, Dathan. Anything."
  • (Edward G. Robinson) "Joshua will always be grateful to you -- my little mud flower. His fate is better than the one that waits for Moses."
  • (Debra Paget) "Water, Noble One?"
  • (Vincent Price) "No, wine -- the wine of beauty."
  • (Debra Paget) "What beauty can my lord find in these mud pits?"
  • (Vincent Price) "A lotus flower blooms in the Nile's gray mud. Dathan, she will do well as a house slave."
  • (Debra Paget) "Do not take me from my people. There would be danger."
  • (Vincent Price) "Danger from such lovely hands?"
  • (Debra Paget) "There are other hands strong enough to kill."
  • (Vincent Price) "Our mud flower has a thorn."
  • (Debra Paget) "Oh, please, Lord Baka, I beg you."
  • (Debra Paget) "Death cometh to me, to set me free, death cometh to me."
  • (John Derek) "No, Lilia. Death will not come to you."
  • (Debra Paget) "Joshua. Joshua, you risk your life in coming here. You are firstborn."
  • (John Derek) "So are you. I bring lamb's blood to mark the door posts and lintel -- that the Angel of Death may pass you by."
  • (Debra Paget) "Joshua, it is enough that you have come to me. I am outcast among our people. Do not save me from death, Joshua. Save me from life."
  • (John Derek) "Tomorrow will bring a new world for us, Lilia."
  • (Debra Paget) "You are strange to the pits. Your back is unscarred."
  • (Charlton Heston) "You bring a warm smile with your cool water."
  • (Debra Paget) "My smile is for a stonecutter. The water is for you."
  • (Charlton Heston) "I thank you."
  • (Debra Paget) "Your voice is not strange. You are --"
  • (Charlton Heston) "One of many who thirst."
  • (Vincent Price) "You there. Come here."
  • (Debra Paget) "That is Baka, the master builder."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Does he call me or you?"
  • (Vincent Price) "You, water girl. I'm thirsty."
  • (Debra Paget) "He does not thirst for water."
  • (Slave) "Beauty is but a curse to our women."

John Derek as Joshua

  • (John Derek) "Let the old woman loose."
  • (Egyptian guard) "She'll stay where she is, and you'll die in the lion pit."
  • (Debra Paget) "Joshua."
  • (Martha Scott) "Run to the prince and beg mercy."
  • (Debra Paget) "Mercy from Rameses?"
  • (Martha Scott) "No. From Prince Moses, there on the pavilion."
  • (John Derek) "Praise God, I have found you."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Joshua? We thought you dead."
  • (John Derek) "In the copper mines of Geber, the living are dead."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Sephora. Bring water. How did you find me?"
  • (John Derek) "A merchant buying copper saw you in the tent of Jethro."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Here you, too, will find peace."
  • (John Derek) "Peace? How can you find peace or want it when Rameses builds cities mortared with the blood of our people?"
  • (John Derek) "Here. Water lily."
  • (Debra Paget) "My name is Lilia."
  • (John Derek) "To me you are a lily, and I want water."
  • (Debra Paget) "Joshua. Joshua, I thought you'd never come down."
  • (John Derek) "Water before love, my girl."
  • (Debra Paget) "Does it take the whole Nile to quench your thirst?"
  • (John Derek) "No, just your lips."
  • (Debra Paget) "Be careful, my love. Dathan's eyes can see through stone."
  • (John Derek) "Dathan is a vulture, feeding on the flesh of his own people."
  • (Debra Paget) "When he looks at me, I am afraid."
  • (John Derek) "If he touches you, I'll strangle him with his own whip."
  • (Debra Paget) "And bring death to a thousand of us?"
  • (John Derek) "Is life in bondage better than death?"
  • (John Derek) "God of Abraham, four hundred years we have waited."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Pharaoh's soldiers won't wait so long."
  • (John Derek) "The Almighty has heard our cries from bondage. You are the Chosen One."
  • (Charlton Heston) "I know nothing of your god."
  • (John Derek) "He knows you, Moses. He has brought you to us. You cannot turn your back upon us. You will deliver us."
  • (John Derek) "They told me you were dead."
  • (Debra Paget) "To all I loved, Joshua, I am dead."
  • (John Derek) "Dathan?"
  • (Debra Paget) "Yes. Dathan."
  • (John Derek) "Of your own free will?"
  • (Debra Paget) "My own free will."
  • (John Derek) "You are no man's slave. The hour of deliverance has come."
  • (Debra Paget) "Not for me, Joshua."

John Miljan as The Blind One

  • (Unnamed) "The wind opens the sea."
  • (John Miljan) "God opens the sea with a blast of his nostrils."

Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi

  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time."
  • (Cedric Hardwicke) "The man best able to rule Egypt will follow me. I owe that to my fathers, not to my sons."

Martha Scott as Yochabel

  • (Martha Scott) "God of our fathers, who has appointed an end to the bondage of Israel, blessed am I among all mothers in the land, for my eyes have beheld Thy deliverer."

Tommy Duran as Gershom

  • (Tommy Duran) "Did the little boy die in the desert, my father?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "No. God brought Ishmael and his mother Hagar into a good land."
  • (Tommy Duran) "The same God who lives on the mountain?"
  • (Charlton Heston) "It may be, my son."
  • (Sephora) "Moses. Moses."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Here."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Your mother's calling."
  • (Sephora) "Moses, there is a man among the sheep."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Keep sounding the alarm, Gershom, but stay here till your mother comes."
  • (Sephora) "In the cleft. Behind the rock."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Your eyes are as sharp as they are beautiful."

Vincent Price as Baka

  • (Vincent Price) "Will you lose a throne because Moses builds a city?"
  • (Yul Brynner) "The city that he builds shall bear my name. The woman that he loves shall bear my child. So it shall be written. So it shall be done."
  • (Vincent Price) "They use the old ones to do the work of greasing the stones, Lord Prince. If they are killed, it is no loss."
  • (Charlton Heston) "Are you a master builder or a master butcher?"
  • (Vincent Price) "If we stop moving stones for every grease woman who falls, the city would never rise."
  • (Overseer) "If the slaves are not driven, they will not work."
  • (John Derek) "If their work lags, it is because they are not fed."
  • (Charlton Heston) "You look strong enough."
  • (John Derek) "I am a stonecutter. The Pharaohs likes their images cut deep."

Henry Wilcoxon as Pentaur

  • (Henry Wilcoxon) "He opens the waters before them, and he bars our way with fire. Let us go from this place. Men cannot fight against a God."
  • (Yul Brynner) "Better to die in battle with a God than live in shame."

Judith Anderson as Memnet

  • (Judith Anderson) "What have you found?"
  • (Nina Foch) "The answer to my prayers."
  • (Judith Anderson) "You prayed for a basket?"
  • (Nina Foch) "No. I prayed for a son."
  • (Judith Anderson) "Your husband is in the House of the Dead."
  • (Nina Foch) "And he has asked the Nile god to bring me this beautiful boy."
  • (Nina Foch) "Do you know the pattern of this cloth?"
  • (Nina Foch) "If my son is covered in it, it is a royal robe."

Eduard Franz as Jethro

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