Francis X. Bushman credited as playing...
- Charioteer: You're fouling me, Roman dog!
- Messala: Yes, and I'll wreck you, Greek, to smash the cursed Jew behind you!
- Ben-Hur: It is good to have you back, Messala - - a Roman who understands my people...
- Messala: Rome rules the peoples she has conquered. It is for them to understand Rome!
- [Ben-Hur frowns]
- Messala: I meant no offense, Judah. But your stiff-necked race must learn submission to your masters!
- Messala: To be a Roman is to rule the world! To be a Jew is to crawl in the dirt!
- Messala: Egypt! Egypt! I would drown my soul in your eyes! Give me proof of your love!
- Iras: My heart is in the hollow of your hand, Messala. What more do you wish?
- Messala: You, flower of the Nile, will succeed where others have failed - - solve the mystery of Ilderim's driver.
- Messala: Scum of the galleys! I will grind you in the dust before all Antioch!
- Messala: I will ride you down - - wrench off your wheels - trample you into the sand! You shall race - to your death!
- Messala: Vile slave! By all the furies of Hell I curse you!
