Xena quotes from Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena

You know I’m surprised that you didn’t consider it. What he said..

Gabrielle

Xena, what he said doesn’t matter. I know you. Sometimes I wonder if you really know me but I know what’s in your heart.

Xena

You know more than I do. Gabrielle, I do see you. Sometimes I have trouble facing it but I promise I will.

Gabrielle

*sigh* You don’t know how much that means. Maybe Ares did some good after all, huh?

Xena

I tell you what.

Gabrielle

Au! God..

Xena

The next bad guy we come across is all yours. The next seven little bad guys we’ll come across are all yours.

Gabrielle

Little? Is that a crack about my height?

Xena

No, they’re just harder for me to reach ghaha.

Gabrielle

Yeah, well I guess that makes sense.

Xena

Yeah, yeah.

Gabrielle

Good strategy.

Xena

Jup.

Xena

It's impossible, i cannot be pregnant. If you weren't such a quack,you'd know that getting pregnant requires certain physical requirements that I haven't have for a long time... I'm talking a very long time. no one, zilch, zippo, I'm a love-free zone, therefore it is utterly impossible that I be UP-THE-DUFF! So what's you're diagnosis now?

Mood swings! (Xena lets him go and he falls over)

Xena

I thought so!

Gabrielle

You don't have the slighest idea?

Xena

No. Look we've been through this a thousand times. I don't.

Gabrielle

How could you not know? I just find that hard to believe, you know.

Xena

Tell me.

Gabrielle

Ares. Maybe he did...a god thing.

Xena

No.

Gabrielle

OK, fine. When was the last time you saw Hercules?

Xena

I’ve been here before. This is where I first met Lao Ma. You’re very like her you know.

K'ao Hsin

I’ve walked in her shadow all my life. Now, it seems, is no exception. But I wonder Xena, why do you look so troubled?

Xena

There are people you meet who move in and out of your life like ghosts. And after they’re gone, you find that they’ve left a part of themselves with you. It's as if in some small way that their spirit helps define who you are or what you want to bring to the world.

K'ao Hsin

Then it seems that my mother is still alive in us both.

Xena

Your mother taught me compassion. It's a lesson that I want to pass on to this child. But you, how did you learn that without the benefit of her love?

K'ao Hsin

Every day that passes in Chin without bloodshed passes because my mother played a part in the destiny of our homeland. Just look around Xena. Her lesson is her legacy. She speaks to me even now through the whispering wind. You wish to know where I learned compassion? All you have to do is listen.

Xena

You are your mother's daughter.

K'ao Hsin

It must have been beautiful.

Xena

Yes. I was cornered here, and your mother hid me in her bath, underwater. She gave me her breath to keep me alive.

K'ao Hsin

She died in this palace, didn't she?

Xena

That’s right.

K'ao Hsin

Then this is the perfect place to study. In the presence of her spirit.

K'ao Hsin

"The entire world is driven by a will-- "blind and ruthless. "In order to transcend the limitations of the physical world, one must cease desiring,

-and become what we desire.

Xena

"To conquer others is to wield power. But to conquer ourselves is to know the way." Lao Ma's power came from her purity of thought.

K’ao Hsin

Then with purity on our side, Pao Ssu will be easily defeated.

Xena

No. Pao Ssu has her own kind of purity. The purity of hatred.

Xena

Hey, K'ao Hsin, what do you think? Huh? - What's wrong?

K'ao Hsin

I'm plagued with doubt and fear. I can't still my mind.

Xena

Fear of what?

K'ao Hsin

My sister's hate. I hear her words echoing through my mind, telling me that I am weak. And she's right! I'll never have the strength to defeat her.

Xena

Wrong. It takes great strength to show compassion. Lao Ma taught us both that. That's what we're going to need to beat Pao Ssu.

K'ao Hsin

I don't understand.

Xena

Yes, you do! [ Softly ] You do. You said yourself. Lao Ma lives on in her legacy. And each of us holds a part of that. Her blood is in your heart. Her lessons are in mine. If we focus together, we don't need the book.

K'ao Hsin

"The hawk and the dove must be made one with the wisdom." All this time, I thought it was Pao Ssu. But it's you.

Xena

"Knowing the way is like being a child."

K'ao Hsin

"Laughing and crying all day without being hoarse."

"Small people hate loneliness. But the master makes it her home." "Her source. Her mother. For she knows it allows her to be one with the universe."

K'ao Hsin

"The master knows no expectation. Therefore, no disappointment."

Xena

"And thus, she stays young forever."

Lao Ma

"To conquer others is to have power. To conquer yourself is to know the way."

Ares

I never knew you were looking for a father.

Xena

I'm not.

Ares

Well then someone clearly has the job.

Xena

Yeah, Gabrielle.

Ares

I would have paid to see that.

Xena

The only reason why people like Eli exist is because people like us defend them when they won't defend themselves.

Gabrielle

(Angrily) So Ares is right? The whole future is shaped by warriors? (Walks away)

Hades told me that in the Elysian Fields, you don't even know that you're dead. You just live the same day over and over, thinking your family's going to be home any minute, but they never come. The next morning, it just starts all over again.

Xena

That's so you don't miss the people you left behind.

If not missing you means not seeing you, I'd rather stay here. At least this way, I'd still get to be with you.

Ares

Ow, Athena is beating you like a dog out there. Put a poultice on it, it's gotta sting.

Xena

Thanks.

Ares

Hey, don't feel bad. After all, you're fighting the god of wisdom and warfare.

Xena

Don't forget weaving.

Xena

You guys cut it pretty fine with that attack.

Gabrielle

Huh.

Xena

Nearly ran out of foreplay...just about had to go through with it.

Gabrielle

Xena, when someone invents an accurate time-keeping device, then I can synchronize the plan better.

Joxer

Here's the grub for the spud.

Xena

What's this?

Joxer

You asked for baby food.

Xena

Babyback ribs are not baby food, Joxer.

Well, I'm a virgin and I'm gonna stay that way forever.

Xena

Forever is a long time...

What's it like, being with a man?

Xena

The good news is, it's different every time...bad news is - it's different every time. You're always hoping for a Greek fire, but sometimes you just get diddly.

Gabrielle

Xena has studied the subject more than I have but I think she's trying to say that some people are better lovers than others.

What makes a man a good lover? Being gentle and kind?