Titus (film) Quotes

Titus (film) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . Titus completed its run in 1970.

It features Conchita Airoldi, Jody Allen, and Julie Taymor as producer, Elliot Goldenthal in charge of musical score, and Luciano Tovoli as head of cinematography.

Titus (film) is recorded in English, and Latin and originally aired in Italy, United Kingdom, and United States. Each episode of Titus (film) is 162 minutes long. Titus (film) is distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

The cast includes: Blake Ritson as Titus, Matthew Rhys as Demetrius, Harry Lennix as Aaron, Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Chiron, Colm Feore as Marcus Andronicus, Angus Macfadyen as Lucius, Laura Fraser as Lavinia, and Osheen Jones as Young Lucius.

Titus (film) Quotes

Blake Ritson as Titus

• (Saturnius) "Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?"
• (Blake Ritson) "Because I would be sure to have all well, To entertain your highness and your Empress."

• (Saturnius) "What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?"
• (Blake Ritson) "Killed her, for whom my tears had made me blind."

• (Blake Ritson) "O handle not the theme, to talk of hands, Lest we remember still, that we have none."

• (Blake Ritson) "Rome is but a wilderness of tigers."

Angus Macfadyen as Lucius

• (Angus Macfadyen) "Go some of you, bear Saturninus hence, and give him burial in his father's grave. My father and Lavinia shall forthwith be closed in our household's monument. As for that ravenous tiger, Tamora, no funeral rite nor man in mourning weeds, no mournful bell shall ring her burial. But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey. Her life was beast-like and devoid of pity. And being dead, let birds on her take pity."

• (Angus Macfadyen) "Set him breast-deep in earth and famish him. There let him stand and rave, and cry for food. If anyone relieves or pities him for the offence, he dies. This is our doom."

Harry Lennix as Aaron

• (Harry Lennix) "Oft have I digged up dead mean from their graves and set them upright at their dear friends' doors, even when their sorrows almost was forgot. And on their skins as on the barks of trees, have with my knife carved in Roman letters, "Let not thy sorrow die, though I am dead.""

• (Harry Lennix) "If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul."

Matthew Rhys as Demetrius

• (Matthew Rhys) "So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak, who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravished thee?"
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Write down thy mind. Bewary thy meaning so, and if they stumps will let thee play thy scribe."
• (Matthew Rhys) "See how with signs and tokens she can scrowl."
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Go home. Call for sweet water. Wash thy hands."
• (Matthew Rhys) "She hath no tongue to call nor hands to wash; and so let's leave her with her silent walks."
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "And 'twere my cause, I should go hang myself."
• (Matthew Rhys) "If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord."

• (Matthew Rhys) "Villain, what hast thou done?"
• (Harry Lennix) "That which thou canst not undo."
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Thou hast undone our mother."
• (Harry Lennix) "Villain, I have done thy mother."

• (Matthew Rhys) "Chiron, thy years wants wit, thy wit wants edge and manners, to intrude where I am graced, and may for aught thou knowest, affected be."
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Demetrius, thou dost overween it all and so in this, to bare me down with braves. 'Tis not the difference of a year or two makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate. I am as able and as fit as thou to serve and deserve my mistress' grace, and that my sword upon thee shall approve. And plead my passions for Lavinia's love."
• (Harry Lennix) "Clubs, clubs. These lovers will not keep the peace."
• (Matthew Rhys) "Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised gave you a dancing rapier by your side are you so desprite grown to threat your friends? Go to. Have your lath glued within your sheath till you know better how to handle it."
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Meanwhile, sir, with the little skill I have full well shalt thou perceive how much i dare."
• (Matthew Rhys) "Ay, boy, grow ye so brave?"
• (Harry Lennix) "How now, lords. Here in the emperor's palace dare you draw and maintain such a quarrel openly? Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge. I would not for a million of gold the cause were known to them it most concerns. Nor would your noble mother for much more be so dishonored in the cort of Rome. For shame, put up."
• (Matthew Rhys) "Not till I have sheathed my rapier in his bosom and withal thrust those reproachful speeches down his throat that he hath breathed in my dishonor here."
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "For that I am prepared and full resolved. Foul-spoken coward, that thunderest with thy tongue and with thy weapon nothing darest perform."
• (Harry Lennix) "Away, I say. Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore, this petty brabble will undo us all. Why, lords, think you not how dangerous it is to step upon a prince's right? What, is Lavinia then become so loose or Bassianus so degenerate that for her love such quarrels may be broached without controlment, justice, or revenge? Young lords, beware. And should the empress know this discord's ground, the music would not please."

Laura Fraser as Lavinia

• (Laura Fraser) "In peace and honor live Lord Titus long. My noble lord and father, live in fame. Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears I render for my brethren's obsequies, and at thy feet I kneel with tears of joy shed on this earth for thy return to Rome. O bless me here with thy victorious hand."
• (Blake Ritson) "Kind Rome, that hast thoust lovingly reserved the cordial of mine age to glad my heart. Lavinia, live, outlive thy father's days and fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise."

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Chiron

• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Aaron, a thousand deaths would I propose to achieve her whom I love."
• (Harry Lennix) "To achieve her? How?"
• (Matthew Rhys) "Why makest thou it so strange? She is a woman and therefore may be woo'd. She is a woman, therefore may be won. She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved."

• (Tamora) "O cruel, irreligious peity."
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Was ever Scythia half so barbarous?"
• (Matthew Rhys) "Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome. Alarbus goes to rest and we survive to tremble under Titus' threat'ning look."

• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Demetrius. Here's the son of Lucius. He hath some message to deliver us."
• (Harry Lennix) "Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather."
• (Osheen Jones) "My lords, with all the humbleness I may, I greet your honors from Andronicus."
• (Matthew Rhys) "Gramercy, lovely Lucius. What's the news?"
• (Osheen Jones) "My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me the goodliest weapons of his armory to gratify your honorable youth -- the hope of Rome, for so he bid me say,and so I do."
• (Osheen Jones) "And so I leave you both. Like bloody villains."
• (Matthew Rhys) "What's here, a scroll written round about."
• (Matthew Rhys) ""Integer vitae, scelerisque purus, Non eget Mauri iaculis, nec arce.""
• (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Oh, 'tis a verse in Horace. I know it well. " He who is pure of life and free of sin needs no bow and arrow of the Moor.""
• (Harry Lennix) "Ay, just. A verse in Horace. Right, you have it."
• (Harry Lennix) "Now, what a thing it is to be an ass. Here's no sound jest. The old man hath found their guilt and sends them weapons wrapped about with lines that wound beyond their feeling, to the quick. But were our witty empress well afoot, she would applaud Andronicus' conceit, but -- let her rest in her unrest awhile."

Colm Feore as Marcus Andronicus

• (Colm Feore) "Oh brother, speak with possibility and do not break into these deep extremes."
• (Blake Ritson) "Are not my sorrows deep, having no bottom? Then be my passions bottomless with them."
• (Colm Feore) "But yet let reason govern thy lament."
• (Blake Ritson) "If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes."

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