Quotes

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Khitan General: My fear is that my sons will never understand me. Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good. But what is best in life? Khitan Warrior: The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair. Khitan General: Wrong! Conan, what is best in life? Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women! Khitan General: That is good!

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The Witch: They said you'd come from the North: a man of great strength, a conqueror. A man who would some day be king by his own hands. One who would crush the snakes of the earth. Conan: Snakes? Did you say snakes? The Witch: What is it you seek? Conan: A standard. A symbol, perhaps on a shield. Two snakes coming together, facing each other, but they're one. The Witch: With a sun and a moon below. Black sun. Black moon. Conan: Yes. The Witch: There is a price, barbarian!

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Subotai: Food. Food! I have not eaten for days. Conan: And who says you will? Subotai: Give me food so I have strength when the wolves come. Let me die not in hunger, but in combat. Conan: Who are you? Subotai: I am Subotai, thief and archer. I am Hyrkanian, of the great order of Krelath. Conan: So what are you doing here? Subotai: [Holds up chains] Dinner for wolves.

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Thulsa Doom: You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my pets! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief! He raised that snake from the time it was born. Conan: You killed my mother. You killed my father. You killed my people! You took my father's sword! Thulsa Doom: Ah, it must have been when I was younger. There was a time, boy, when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me than gold or jewels. Conan: The riddle of steel? Thulsa Doom: Yes! You know what it is, don't you, boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; that beautiful girl. [Points to a teenaged girl on a nearby cliff] Come to me, my child. [Beckons to her] Thulsa Doom: That is strength, boy! That is power! The strength and power of flesh! What is steel, compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your hear

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Conan: What gods do you pray to? Subotai: I pray to the Four Winds. And you? Conan: To Crom, but I seldom pray to him. He doesn't listen. Subotai: What good is he then?, Ah, it's just as I've always said. Conan: He is strong! If I die I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is the Riddle of Steel?" If I don't know it he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me, That's Crom, strong on his mountain! Subotai: Ah, my god is greater. Conan: Crom laughs at your Four Winds. He laughs from his mountain. Subotai: My god is stronger. He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him.

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Valeria: [to Conan and Subotai] Two fools that laugh at death. Do you know what horrors lie behind that wall? Conan: No. Valeria: Then you go first.