- Moutamin: [after El Cid claims Valencia for the King] What a noble subject, if only he had a noble King.
- Prince Sancho: [after Count Ordóñez betrays Prince Sancho in and ambush to kill El Cid] Kill him!
- El Cid: You will soon be a King, you must start to think like one, any man can kill, only a King can give life!
- El Cid: I did not seek your father's death, Jimena.
- Jimena: No, but you knew he could only answer the way he did... and you were prepared to kill him. You bought your honor with my sorrow.
- El Cid: There was no other way for me. The man you chose to love could do only what I did.
- Jimena: Why did you come, Rodrigo? Did you think the woman you chose to love could do less than you?
- El Cid: I tried not to come. I told myself my love had no right to live... but my love won't die.
- Jimena: Kill it!
- El Cid: YOU kill it! Tell me you don't love me!
- Jimena: I cannot. Not yet. But I will make myself worthy of you, Rodrigo. I will learn to hate you.
- Ben Yussuf: The Prophet has commanded us to rule the world. Where in all your land of Spain is the glory of Allah? When men speak of you they speak of poets, musicmakers, doctors, scientists. Where are your warriors? You dare to call youselves sons of the Prophet? You have become women! Burn your books! Make warriors of your poets! Let you doctors invent new poisons for our arrows. Let you scientists invent new war machines! And then, kill! Burn! Infidels live on your frontiers. Encourage them to kill each other. And when they are weak and torn, I will sweep up from Africa, and the empire of the One God, the true God, Allah, will spread, first across Spain, then across Europe, then the whole world!
- El Cid: Our dream was short.
- Jimena: I know. There is no place hidden for a man like you. There must be thousands who would gladly part. Why you? Why me?
- El Cid: Please, let me carry away an image of you smiling.
- Jimena: It would be a lie. I will beseech God with my prayers. I will tell Him He must bring you back to me. I must tell God how much I need you.
- El Cid: Then we *will* see each other again.
- Jimena: Can you forgive me, Rodrigo?
- El Cid: Jimena.
- Jimena: Would you take me with you?
- El Cid: But... now I... have nowhere to take you.
- Jimena: As long as we are together it will not be nowhere. I love you Rodrigo. I love you.
- [They kiss]
- El Cid: You know what you risk if you come with me, my love?
- Jimena: Since my love is not a man like other men my life with not be like other lives.
- El Cid: It's only now, only know that I know... how hard the road would have been without you.
- [They kiss again]
- Moutamin: In my country, we have a name for a warrior with the vision to be just and the courage to show mercy. We call him... the cid!
- Prince Alfonso: It was not through lack of courage that we lost.
- Jimena: It takes more than courage to be a king.
- El Cid: Soldiers! People of Valencia! You must not be frightened... by the sound of a few drums. In a few hours, they will be silenced forever!
- El Cid: We have not spent much time together. Yet it seems to me... Yet it seems to me that those who have spent a lifetime together... have not had more than we.
- Jimena: I don't really understand, Rodrigo. I only know if it grew out of our love, it must be right.