Xena quotes from Xena: Warrior Princess

Gabrielle

No, no look, you promise me. If something happens to me, you will not become a monster. There's only one way to end this cycle of hatred, and it's through love and forgiveness.

Xena

Don't you go changing, Gabrielle. I like you just the way you are. Go get some sleep.

Gabrielle

No, no, you promise me.

Xena

I promise.

Xena

Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you without a fair trial.

Callisto

You know, there used to be a little respect mixed up in my hatred for you. But not anymore. Your petty scruples are embarrassing. As a villain, you were awesome. As a hero, you're a sentimental fool.

Gabrielle

I thought you said your brother was killed by Cortese...

Xena

No, that was my younger brother. Gabrielle, this is my older brother, Toris.

Gabrielle

Huh, you're full of surprises.

Xena

Toris has some surprises of his own. That's the mask of Cortese.

Toris

That's right. It's the only way I can get close enough to Cortese-- to kill him.

Xena

I want Cortese as much as you do. But murder is not the answer. I learned the hard way about justice –

Toris

Learned the hard way? Are you bragging? What I saw of you when I left our village was not something to be proud of.

Xena

And what did you see? Someone had to step forward. Cortese would have slaughtered us all if we hadn't fought.

Toris

If our people had followed me to the hills –

Xena

Cortese would have hunted us down like dogs. I had to make a stand, and I wasn't the only one show believed that.

Toris

That's right. Our brother believed it. Lyceus stood by you to the end. And it was his end, remember?

Xena

I said fight because it was our village. Lyceus believed in that, and I would say it again.

Xena

Toris...

Toris

How do you put up with that girl?

Xena

Why? She knows more about wisdom and justice than you'll ever know.

Xena

He got in the way. It's war Gabrielle.

Gabrielle

I can't bear to think of all the innocents who suffer because of this madness. Someone has to stop it. Come on, Xena. Not even you can stop an entire war. All right, look, I did not mean that as a challenge.

Xena

Stay here with Ephiny.

Gabrielle

What are you going to do?

Xena

I'm gonna find a safe place for Ephiny to have her baby...and then I'm gonna stop this war.

Gabrielle

I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.

Xena

You were right, I shouldn't have brought her here.

We all make mistakes.

Xena

My pride may have killed my best friend.

If she had hit him an inch lower, she could have killed the monster.

Xena

She knew that. That's why he's still alive.

Are you telling me that she'd rather die than take the life of a man she doesn't even know?

Xena

Gabrielle lives by her own code. That code doesn't include killing.

Xena

[crying]: Don't leave me! Don't you leave me! Don't leave me! Don't leave me! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

Gabrielle

[Gasping]

Xena

You're okay

You're Asclepius! You've come back to Earth!

Xena

Get up Galen. I'm not Asclepius. You should know that by now. It's Gabrielle who performed the miracle...didn't you?

Gabrielle

Xena...

Xena

Yeah.

Gabrielle

I wanted to thank you for saving my life...again. You always seem to be doing that.

Xena

It was your decision to come back.

Gabrielle

How could I leave you? When we have so many wars to stop and despots to foil? You're going to need my help.

Xena

I couldn't do it without you, but you're gonna have to rest up for a while.

Amazing. I see so much change in your eyes. You aren't the woman I faced ten years ago. You aren't that warrior. Let him go, Xena. He's got a family and a home here. He's not your son anymore.

Xena

Are you telling me this for my good or yours?

For his... and mine. For nine years, Solan has been my son. I love him more than my very life and the thought of losing him... You can't possibly know what that feels like.

Xena

Do you know what it's like to be a mother without her child?

You saved our temple. Name your reward. If it's ours to bestow, it's yours

Xena

Reward-- for what? For killing a boy barely out of his childhood? I don't want a reward; I want that boy's life back. By the gods, I wish I'd never followed the sword in the first place.

Xena

Find a way to make him presentable, and then we'll leave.

Joxer

Wait a minute. What did she mean, make you presentable?

She doesn't want me to look like you

Joxer

Wait wait wait...How am I supposed to know who the real Diana is?

Xena

Well if you come across a woman and she looks exactly like me and she displays any interest in you whatsoever as a man, that's the bad one.

Joxer

She is bad! Real bad...

Look into my eyes old woman, Xena's not home.

Cyrene

Who are you?

Just another loving daughter.