Braveheart is one of the greatest films of all time, and it has numerous memorable quotes. Here are some great quotes from Braveheart.
Hamish: Personal escort of the princess.
William Wallace: Aye.
Hamish: Musta made an impression.
William Wallace: Aye.
Hamish: I didn’t think you were in the tent that long.
[Murron is tied to a post about to be executed]
Magistrate: All of you know full well, the great pains I have always taken never to be too strict, too rigid with the application of our laws, and as a consequence, have we not learned to live together in relative peace and harmony, huh? And this day’s lawlessness is how you repay my leniency. Well you leave me with little choice. An assault on the king’s soldiers is the same as an assault on the king himself.
[he slits Murron’s throat]
Magistrate: [about Wallace] Now, let this scrapper come to me.
Longshanks: Scottish rebels have routed one of my garrisons and murdered the noble lord.
Prince Edward: I heard. This Wallace is a brigand, nothing more.
Longshanks: And how would you deal with this ‘brigand?’
Prince Edward: Like any common thief. Have the local magistrate arrest him and punish him accordingly.
Longshanks: [to all] Leave us.
[room clears, then Longshanks strikes the Prince]
Longshanks: Wallace has already killed the magistrate, and taken control of the town!
William Wallace: And if this is your army, why does it go?
Soldier: We didn’t come here to fight for them.
Second Soldier: Home, the English are too many!
William Wallace: Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace.
Second Soldier: William Wallace is seven feet tall!
William Wallace: Yes, I’ve heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he’d consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.
[Scottish army laughs]
William Wallace: I AM William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of tyranny. You’ve come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
Soldier: Against that? No, we’ll run, and we’ll live.
William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you’ll live… at least for a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!
William Wallace: Why do you help me?
Princess Isabelle: Because of the way you are looking at me now.
Longshanks: [to Prince Edward] One day you will be a king. At least try to act like one.
Longshanks: Who is this person that speaks to me as though I needed his advice?
William Wallace: Before we let you leave, your commander must cross that field, present himself before this army, put his head between his legs, and kiss his own arse.
Stephen: In order to converse with an equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God.
Longshanks: Whom do I send? Not my gentle son. The mere sight of him would only encourage an enemy to take over the whole country.
Nicolette: Englishmen don’t know what a tongue is for.
Stephen: I didn’t like him anyway. He wasn’t right in the head.
Robert the Bruce: I’m not a coward. I want what you want, but we need the nobles.
William Wallace: We need them?
Robert the Bruce: Aye.
William Wallace: [laughs a little] Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don’t follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they’d follow you. And so would I.
Hamish: Some men are longer than others.
Campbell: Your mother’s been telling stories about me again, ah?
Robert the Bruce: Now, I know you’ve sacrificed much. But fighting these odds looks like rage, not courage.
William Wallace: It’s well beyond rage. Help me. In the name of Christ, help yourselves. If we join, we can win. If we win, well then we’ll have what none of us has ever had before: a country of our own.
Robert’s Father: Longshanks required Wallace. So did our nobles. That was the price of your crown.
Robert the Bruce: DIE. I want you to die.
Longshanks: Bring me Wallace. Alive if possible, dead… just as good.
Robert’s Father: I’m the one that’s rotting, but your face looks graver than mine.
Longshanks: If we can’t get them out, we’ll breed them out.
