- – - Emperor’s Club August 7, 2006
Posted by janargy in Lessons in Life.trackback
One of my favorite movies of all time is the Emperor’s Club starring Kevin Kline as Prof. Hundert of St. Benedicts School for Boys. A story about a dedicated teacher who have hoped that he could make a dent by imbibing his virtues and principles to his students. A clash of personality started when a new boy enrolled at the school, Sedgewick Bell, son of a senior senator in Massachussets. They started as ‘enemies’ eventually turning into friends but their friendship was ruined by an event that the Professor Hundert hoped would be the path towards Sedgewicks reformation. If you’re a fan of movies with good punchlines and quotable quotes then this is for you.
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“Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?”
“Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated; “Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever.”
“A great teacher has little external history to record. His life goes over into other lives. These men are pillars in the intimate structure of our schools. They are more essential than its stones or beams, and they will continue to be a kindling force and a revealing power in our live”
“The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.”
“However much we stumble, it is a teacher’s burden always to hope, that with learning, a boys’ character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man.”
“History will tell us that you may not swim in the same river twice. Because an opportunity lost is lost forever. however, the water I find myself swimming in is very familiar to so many years ago.The waters in which we found ourselves swimming, were precisely as lovely as those we had earlier only imagined. But if time had made concessions for love, it made none for death.”
“Socrates: It is not Living that is important, but Living rightly.”
“The End Depends upon the Beginning.”
“To live a life without virtue and principle is not to live a life at all”
A man’s character is his fate…for most of us, our stories can be written long before we die.
I watched this movie today and I loved it immensely. I was searching for its qoutations and I stumbled upon your page, a very nice site you have, might I add. This collection of qoutes is exactly what I needed. Thankyou.
…hehehe…i love this movie…ang sarap kasing panoorin…kakaiba ung mga qoutation nya…gandang iapply…khit d koh naintndihan….english kasi…wahaha….
ay…napanood ko din yang movie n yan eh…hahaha ang ganda nga eh kahit mejo mahirap intindihin…..
I have see lot of heart catching movies but the Emperor’s Club really stand out, maybe one of the greatest. I love its quotations, its teachings about life.
I learned that:
-Failure, I believe, is when you stop. As long as you’re still trying you’re not failed yet.
-We have to accept that not all things will end up the way we want or expected to, no matter how great we are or how hard we exert our effort.
ahhhmmmmm,loading….pls w8 4 a moment……hehehe
i have learned many lessons in life in this movie emperors club,i really like it…”walang kuwenta ang isang tagumpay,kung itoy dumaan sa isang maduming paraan”
that’s true..everything is none sense and worth less kung hindi mo ito actually pnaghirapan..cheating is pitiful..pinapakita lang dito na mahina ka..at wala kang kayang gawin unless you cheated..hindi land ibang tao ang niloloko mo but actually youself..
i already watch the movie cause of s’jan…i never knew this movie before but the moment i have watch it…there’s so many inspiring quotable quotes to learn…
The movie is superb!
Four thumbs up!
The words of Prof. Hundert to Cedric Bell still rings in my ear:
Mr. H: All of us, at some point, is force to look ourselves in the mirror and see who we really are. And when that they comes to you Cedric bell, you would see a life, live without virtue, without principle, and for that I pity you…
My favorite part in the movie.
yeah…the movie is awesome…there were lots of lessons that you’ll learn from this film…also the quotations mentioned to this movie were nailed on my mind…hehehe
it s also one on the best film that i ever watch, coach carter id another. it gives soma food for thought. it affects the eternity. hahaha
yeah right sir…as in one of the best movie that could impart us so many lessons in life..that could be carry wherever i might go..we should learn our lessons from the past and make sure never cmmit it again..life is a very precious gift from God…so live it with purpose and live on the right pathyways..in short..live it rightly…i recommend others to watch it..whehehe..(“,)
try q nga pnoorin yan,prang ang gnda kc ng mga qoutations eh
i learned so mucc from this movie…
especilly..
n opportunity lost is lost forever
‘The End Depends upon the Beginning.”This applies to ones goal. All effort should be equal to our goal.
All phrases were consequently very much applicable in all our endeavors. In watching a movie, we dont simply watched and enjoy.We also need to reflect the purpose behind the making of the said movie could it be fiction or non fiction stories.
Hhehjehh,,
naKzZZZ naMAn..
VerY reMArKAbLE NAmn Ung StoRY N FAvoRite
mUh..
kAw TLga..
npnuod nga nmen xa..knina lng.. d p nga ku mkmuv o ang astig kc tlga ng prof..dmeng lessons n pdng m22nan..aun mejo nkkainis ung sang student nya.. prng wlang effect yung tnuro ng frof s knya.. sayang lng..
yup, very inspiring movie po especially sa mga gusto din mging teacher… amgrereflect pa nga ung attitude ni sir jan towards his teaching career and his students… and, ka2lad dun sa movie, 4 sure ndi rin xa mkakalimutan ng mga students nya.. peru… cguro,,, pwde rin,,, ok din cguro mging teacher ng anak q c sir jan….. hahahah
i have watched it…kanina hehehehhe
nice movie.haistttttt….
mistakes committed in the past shud’t be repeated agen. oo tao tau, but, duh?! haven’t you learned ur lesson?
making the same mistake would just move you to deeper sh*t.