Maggie Smith Quotes

Mother Superior God help us.

Zeus Perseus has won. My son has triumphed.

Hera A fortunate young man.

Zeus Fortune is ally to the brave.

Thetis What a dangerous precedent. What if there more heroes like him? What if courage and imagination became everyday mortal qualities? What will become of us?

Zeus We would no longer be needed. But, for the moment, there is sufficient cowardice, sloth, and mendacity down there on Earth to last forever.

Mrs. Austen Jane!

Lady Gresham What is she doing?

Mr. Wisley Writing.

Lady Gresham Can anything be done about it?

Calibos Thetis, divine goddess of the sea: hear the prayer of your son Calibos. Show me the way to justice. Show me how to punish Perseus for this blasphemy! Look on this! In wounding me, he has insulted you! Then surely he must be punished. Show me. Help me.

Thetis Perseus is protected by Zeus himself. There is nothing I can do.

Calibos Then punish those that Perseus loves! The queen, Andromeda, the people of Joppa! Persuade your devoted Lord Poseidon to let loose the Kraken on the city! Let the Kraken destroy Joppa as it destroyed Argos! I DEMAND JUSTICE!

Thetis Justice? Or revenge?

Thetis So many women. He invents so many disguises to seduce them. Sometimes a swan or a bull. Sometimes a shower of gold. Why, he once tried to ravish me as a cuttlefish.

Hera Did he succeed?

Thetis Certainly not!

Athena What did you do?

Thetis Beat him at his own game. I simply turned myself into a shark!

Mother Superior Go with God, Crispy.

Thetis My priests of Joppa are loyal. I will speak to them in dreams and omens. As my Calibos suffers, so will Andromeda. I promise you. The son of Zeus is to be left to the whim of chance, while mine is punished with deformity. It is time for chance to intervene. Time you saw something of the world, Perseus. Time you came face to face with fear. Time to know the terrors of the dark and look on death. Time your eyes were opened to grim reality. Far to the east, across the sea, in Joppa, in the kingdom of Phoenicia.

Cassiopeia As I bind their hands with this silken thread, bear witness that as she is my heiress, so Perseus becomes my heir. As she is my daughter, so Perseus becomes my son. I give her to the man who has saved us from despair. I give Andromeda, the most beautiful of all prizes, more beautiful than anything on Earth or in Heaven. Even more lovely than the goddess Thetis herself ...

Thetis Hear me, vain and foolish mortal woman. You dare compare your daughter's beauty to mine in my own sanctuary? You will repent your boast and the cruel injury you have inflicted on my son Calibos.

Cassiopeia Forgive. Forgive.

Thetis In thirty days, on the eve of the longest day of the year, your daughter must be taken to the sacrificial rock at the edge of the sea. There bound and chained to the stone. She must be unknown to man: a virgin. A sacrifice suitable for the Kraken. She must be delivered to the Kraken at the setting of the sun, or else the Kraken will destroy all Joppa and everyone within the city. For the insult you have done to me and the cruel injury inflicted on my son, I demand the life of Andromeda. In thirty days.

Thetis The child, Perseus, is the son of Zeus. That is why he is to be saved... and why Argos is doomed.

Zeus You set him down half-naked in a strange, despairing city?

Thetis Chance?

Zeus Nothing to do with chance, and you know it. A deliberate and malicious act unworthy of a goddess.

Thetis You accuse me?

Zeus Well, one thing is certain: my son needs more than an actor's cloak and a wooden sword! Provide him with suitable weapons. Weapons of divine temper. A helmet! A sword! A shield! And he must have them with all speed!

Thetis Great Zeus, below on Earth, it is now the eve of the longest day.

Zeus Very well. RELEASE THE KRAKEN.