Messenger: Who does this woman think she is that she can speak among men?
Queen Gorgo: Because only Spartan women give birth to real men.

Messenger: Choose your next words carefull Leonidas... they may be your last ones as king!
King Leonidas: You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same!
Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!
King Leonidas: Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!

Dilios: Immortals,we put their name to the test.

Dilios: "Goodbye my love" - He doesn't say it... there's no room for softness... not in Sparta. No place for weakness. Only the hard and strong may call themselves Spartans. Only the hard... only the strong.

Queen Gorgo: Spartan!
King Leonidas: Yes, my lady?
Queen Gorgo: Come back with your shield, or on it.

King Leonidas: You there! What is your profession? *points to Arkadian soldier*
Arkadian soldier #1: A potter, sir.
King Leonidas: Hm... and you, Arkadian - what is your profession? *points to another soldier*
Arkadian soldier #2: I'm a blacksmith, sir.
King Leonidas: Spartans! What is your profession?
Spartans: Harooh! Harooh! Harooh!
King Leonidas: You see, old friend? I brought more soldiers than you did.

Messenger: A thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun!
Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.

King Leonidas: The world will know that freemen stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and that before this battle is done, that even a god king can bleed.

Daxos: I saw those ships smashed on the rocks. How can this be?
Stelios: We saw but a fraction of the monster that is Xerxes' army.
Daxos: There can be no victory here... why do you smile?
Stelios: Arcadian, I've fought countless times, yet I've never met an adversary who could offer me what we Spartans call "A Beautiful Death." I can only hope, with all the world's warriors gathered against us, there might be one down there who's up to the task.

Theron to Queen Gorgo: This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I am not your King.

Theron: My whore Queen...
Queen Gorgo: *stabs Theron* This will not be over quickly! You will not enjoy this! I am not your Queen!

King Leonidas: My children, gather round! No retreat, no surrender; that is Spartan law and by Spartan law we will stand and fight... and die. A new age has begun. An age of freedom, and will know, that 300 Spartans gave their last breaths to defend it!

Xerxes: Yours is a fascinating tribe... defiant even in the face of annihilation. There is much our cultures could share.
King Leonidas: Perhaps you haven't noticed, but we've been sharing our culture with you all morning.

Captain: They look thirsty!
King Leonidas: Well let's give them something to drink! To the cliffs!

King Leonidas: Spartans! Prepare for glory!

King Leonidas: Then what must a king do to save his world when the very laws he has sworn to protect force him to do nothing?
Queen Gorgo: It is not a question of what a Spartan citizen should do, nor a husband, nor a king. Instead, ask yourself, my dearest love, what should a free man do?

King Leonidas: Dilios, I trust that "scratch" hasn't made you useless.
Dilios: Hardly, my lord, it's just an eye. The gods saw fit to grace me with a spare.

Xerxes: Consider the fate of your women.
King Leonidas: Clearly you don't know our women! I might as well have marched them up here judging by what I've seen.

King Leonidas: Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... For tonight, we dine in hell!

Persian Officer: Spartans, lay down your weapons.
King Leonidas: Persians! Come and get them!

Stelios: It is an honor to die at your side.
King Leonidas: It is an honor to have lived at yours.

Dilios: He did not wish tribute, nor song, or monuments or poems of war and valor. His wish was simple. "Remember us" he said to me. That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. "May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie." And so my king died, and my brothers died; barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory, but time has proven him wise, for from free Greek to free Greek, the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives... not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds. Now here on this ragged patch of earth called Plateaea, let his hordes face obliteration!
Spartan Army: HA-OOH!
Dilios: Just there the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers... knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300, yet they stare now across the plane at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks... HA-OOH!
Spartan Army: HA-OOH! HA-OOH! HA-OOH!
Dilios: The enemy outnumber us a paltry 3 to 1, a match for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a world brighter than anything we can imagine, Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300! TO VICTORY!