Xena: Warrior Princess quotes

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Ares: "It's not the end of the world. Who knows, maybe as a mortal I can experience something I never could as a god."
Xena: "Like what?"
Ares: "Like you."

Ares: "You don't bring me flowers anymore.

Ares: What happened to the peace-loving, blond chick you used to be?
Gabrielle: Ares, [plants herself on his lap] that Gabrielle's been gone for a long time. You and Xena showed me that warriors rule the world, not philosophers.
Ares: I could get used to this. I could.

Ares: (After kissing Hope) You are so not like your mother.

Ares: [referring to Gabrielle] Ding-dong, the bitch is dead.

Ares: [tries to disapparate with his non-existent powers] I gotta stop trying that. I'm gonna rupture something.

Ares: Call me a big softie, but I decided I like you after all.

Ares: Hmm, intersting. There's an analogy here of course. The water representing our torments, the ice the thin layer of control we like to believe over it, but it's a false confidence.

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.
[Gabrielle smirks]
Ares: I would have paid to see that.

Ares: No. Life isn't worth living. It's to be taken, and beaten. And wrestled, and formed in your image. That's where the meaning lies. In what you can twist life into. For those who just endure life, yeah it is a very nasty joke. But for those who form it with their will, the joke is on those who get in the way.
Xena: I must be crazy. You're beginning to make sense.

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.

Ares: Pain! So that's what it feels like. Not so bad really.
Gabrielle: Oh ya like it, huh? Well there's plenty more where that came from.

Ares: Sometimes the best man for a job... is a woman.

Ares: That´s the spirit, let it go! Pain is just nature´s way of sayin´: Hey, you´re alive!!

Ares: We were starting to-- warm up to each other there, weren't we?
Gabrielle: Yeah, we were.
(beat)
Ares: I didn't like it.
Gabrielle: Right back at ya.