Marco Polo (TV Series)

The Scholar's Pen (2014)

Benedict Wong: Kublai Khan

Quotes 

• Kublai Khan : You are a Taoist monk. Permitted to eat meat, drink wine, enjoy a woman. Yet you have never taken a wife.

  Hundred Eyes : I devoted my life to the service of the Great Khan and his empire. I only have so much time on this earth. I have never taken a wife because I do my best to avoid disappointment.

• Hundred Eyes : [his advice rejected]  You do not listen, do you?

  Kublai Khan : Oh, I do listen. Then I hear what I want to.

• Kublai Khan : The Great Genghis, he of the wolf, dreamed of a Mongol empire stretching throughout all of China. I have sought to realize his dream without spilling Mongol blood. I have been patient. My patience has been rewarded with the severed heads of men who have marched beside you. My scholars, ministers advised me to choose peace over war. But I am a proud Mongol. At times peace can only be achieved through cruel war. We begin the expedition to fulfill our destiny.

  Kublai Khan : You noble men willing to die for a cause greater than yourselves, return not with wealth, nor slaves, but with honor. Those of you who do not return will have your names carved in the Secret History of the Mongols. Your wives, children and parents will hold their heads above other Mongols, because in their hearts they know their husbands, fathers, their sons, gave their lives in pursuit of the last dream of our Great Genghis!

  Soldiers : [all chanting]  For Genghis! For Genghis! For Genghis!

  Kublai Khan : March!