Memorable Quotes from Bela Lugosi
76 quotesControl Over Fate: A Debate
Henry Morton
Dr. Carruthers, you can't pretend that you can control man's fate.
Dr. Paul Carruthers
I've already proven it, three times.
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Claim of Sanity by Dr. Richard Vollin
Dr. Richard Vollin
I am the sanest man who ever lived!
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The Journey of Life and Self-Discovery
Scientist
Man's constant groping of things unknown, drawing from the endless reaches of time, brings to light many startling things. Startling because they seem new...sudden...but most are not new to the signs of the ages. A life...is begun! People...all going somewhere. All with their own thoughts, their own ideas. All with their own personalities. One is wrong because he does right...one is right because he does wrong. Pull the strings! Dance to that, which one is created for. A new day is begun. A new life is begun. A life...is ended.
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Avenge of Poe by Dr. Richard Vollin
Dr. Richard Vollin
Poe, you are avenged!
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Beauty and Acceptance in Love
Countess Lorenz
Can you bear to look at me now?
Dr. Lorenz
Of course. You are beautiful. And I shall always keep you that way.
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Detectives Cause Commotion in the Background
Jack Marsden
Peters, what's all that commotion?
Peters
It sounds like our friends the detectives.
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A Return After Many Years Away
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
I beg your indulgence my friend. Eighteen years ago, I left a girl so like your lovely wife to go to war...She was my wife. Have you ever heard of Kurgaal? It is a prison below Amsk...Many men have gone there. Few have returned. I have returned. After fifteen years, I have returned.
[to Peter, about his stroking Joan's hair while she sleeps]
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Urgent Plea Amidst Desperation
Mary Rinehart
Oh! Call a doctor. Call a doctor!
Degar
It is too late!
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A Doctor's Defiance of Professional Duty
Judge Thatcher
I'll pay you any amount of money, Dr. Vollin.
Dr. Richard Vollin
Money means nothing to me.
Judge Thatcher
But someone is dying! your obligation as a member of the medical profession...
Dr. Richard Vollin
I respect no obligation. I am a law unto himself!
Judge Thatcher
But you have no human feeling? My daughter is dying!
Dr. Richard Vollin
Death hasn't the same significance for me as it has for you.
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Warning of a mythical creature's menace
Scientist
Beware...beware! Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys...puppy dog tails, and big, fat snails. Beware, take care....beware!
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A Humorous Exchange About Health Concerns
One-Shot McGuire
I'm not feeling too hot, would you take my temperature?
Dr. Paul Carruthers
You are perfectly alright.
One-Shot McGuire
Oh yeah? Well you should see my tongue, it looks just like a squirrel's tail!
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A Meeting of Rival Scientists
Dr. Janos Rukh
Dr. Benet, we meet at last.
Dr. Felix Benet
But we already know each other.
Dr. Janos Rukh
True. You've come to see me fail, but you'll be disappointed.
Dr. Felix Benet
I have come to see that Sir Francis isn't deceived.
Dr. Janos Rukh
Your doubts are very flattering.
Dr. Felix Benet
They are mutual. We have never seen eye to eye.
Dr. Janos Rukh
That is because I've always looked two hundred years ahead of your theories.
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Count Dracula's Command to Obey
Count Dracula
And after you deliver the message, you will remember nothing, I now say...Obey.
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Questioning Mortality and Suffering
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
How does it feel to hang on your own embalming rack, Hjalmar?
[to Poelzig]
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Pressure to Deliver Laughter in Comedy
Dr. Zabor
And you better get some laughs this time, or you'll be collecting unemployment insurance.
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A Dangerous Bargain for Silence
Joseph
I know you kill people to sell bodies.
Cabman John Gray
You say you came here of your own account. No-one sent you, no-one knows you're here?
Joseph
Give me money or I tell the police that you murder the subjects.
Cabman John Gray
Well, Joseph, you shall have money, why should you not? I don't suppose the great Dr MacFarlane is over lavish with his pay?
Joseph
No.
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Facing Fears in the Echoes
Mugs
What's a matter wid you? Dat's just an echo.
Bruno
Just an echo.
[a voice]
Mugs
See dat? What I tell ya? Dere's nuttin to be scared of.
Emil
That's what YOU think.
[a second voice]
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Haunting Confrontation of Past and Present
Apparition
So, you couldn't stay away, could you? The criminal always returns to the scene of the crime.
Nardo
Who... who are you?
Apparition
You don't remember me, but twenty years ago in this very house I was a livin being. I had flesh on my bones, blood flowed through my veins, but you... you... you scared the health out of me.
Nardo
I was never in this house until tonight. You have made a mistake!
Apparition
It is YOU who has made the mistake, my friend. For years you have wantonly taken the lives of millions; so, tonight I am going to take yours.
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A Return to Darkness and Betrayal
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
You sold Marmorus to the Russians. You scurried away in the night and left us to die. Is it to be wondered that you should choose this place to build your house? A masterpiece of construction built upon the ruins of the masterpiece of destruction — a masterpiece of murder. The murderer of 10,000 men returns to the place of his crime. Those who died were fortunate. I was taken prisoner at Kurgaal. Kurgaal, where the soul is killed, slowly. Fifteen years I've rotted in the darkness. But not to kill you, but to kill your soul — slowly. Where is my wife, Karen, and my daughter?
[to Poelzig; laughs hideously]
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Desire for Power and Identity in Isolation
Prof. Strowski
Now I am here, sent to bring you home.
Dr. Eric Vornoff
Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal! The jungle is my home. And I will show the world that I can be its master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world!
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Power and Consequences in Service
Roxor
If Nadji opposes me, and you serve me well, there shall be a new slave in your harem.
[to Abdullah]
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Unexpected Reactions to a Scream
Peters
Did I hear somebody scream?
Kitty
Well, if you didn't, you oughta have your ears cleaned out!
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Ygor's Defiance After Death
Ygor
They hanged me once Frankenstein. They broke my neck. They said I was dead. Then they cut me down. They threw me in here, long ago. They wouldn't bury me in holy place like churchyard. Because I stole bodies, eh they said. So, Ygor is dead! So, Dr. Frankenstein. Nobody can mend Ygor's neck. It's alright.
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Reflections on Life and Death
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
It is indeed hard to describe. It's hard to describe his life — or death. It may well be an atmosphere of death. This place was built upon the ruins of the same Ft. Marmorus that our unfortunate friend, the driver, described so vividly. Herr Poelzig commanded Marmorus during the last years of the war. He is perhaps sentimental about this spot.
[to Peter, about Poelzig's house]
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Anticipation of Sweet Revenge
Dr. Richard Vollin
Torture waiting... waiting. It will be sweet, Judge Thatcher!
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Dreams and the Burden of Wealth
Henry Morton
You're a dreamer, Doc. Too much money is bad for dreamers.
Dr. Paul Carruthers
So you tried to pay me in flattery, telling me that I'm a dreamer. Well... I do dream - dreams that you would never guess.
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A New Brain for the Creature
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
Yes but not for the purposes that you think Ygor. I'm giving him strength so that an operation may be successful.
Ygor
An operation?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
Yes. I'm giving him another brain. You must explain to him when he becomes conscious. *You* must make him understand.
Ygor
Whose brain?
Doctor Bohmer
Kettering?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
Yes, Kettering. A man of character and learning. The monster will cease to be an evil influence and become everything that is good.
Ygor
No. No, no. You cannot take my friend away from me. He's all that I have. Nothing else. You're going to make him your friend and I'll be alone.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
It will be as I say or he must be destroyed.
Ygor
He cannot be destroyed.
[laughs]
Doctor Bohmer
There is one way. By dissection.
Ygor
No not that. Doctor, Ygor's body is no good. His neck is broken, crippled, and distorted. Lame and sick from the bullets your brother fired into me. You can put my brain in his body.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
Your brain?
Ygor
You can make us one. We'll be together always. My brain and his body. Together.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
You're a cunning fellow Ygor. Do you think I would put your sly and sinister brain into the body of a giant? That would be a monster indeed. You will do as I tell you or I will not be responsible for the consequences.
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The Uncertainty of Superstition and Reality
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
Superstitious, perhaps... Baloney, perhaps not. There are many things under the sun.
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Ethics of Exposing Danger to Others
Ronald Drake
Do you think it's fair to expose them to the danger?
[about Benet's plan to invite unwitting scientists to a lecture intended as a trap for Rukh]
Dr. Felix Benet
There are only two people he wants to destroy. Two, or perhaps... three.
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Exploring Diverse Outcomes and Unfortunate Realities
Alton
Therefore two entirely different cases, handled in two entirely different ways have a happy ending.
Warren
Yeah, those two. But what of the hundreds of other less fortunate Glens, the world over?
Scientist
Yes. But what of the others, less fortunate Glens, the world over? Oh, snips and snails and puppy dog tails.
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Perception vs. Belief in Reality
Arthur Perry
As Ah Ling would say... Even though the eyes may see, the mind will not believe.
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The Complexity of Storytelling and Understanding
Warren
I'd like to hear the story to the fullest.
Alton
Only the infinity of the depths of a man's mind can really tell the story.
Scientist
Dr. Alton. A young man who is...speaks the words of the all-wise. No one can really tell the story. Mistakes are made. But there is no mistaking the thoughts in a man's mind. The story...is begun...
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Embracing Heritage: Lightning and Legacy
Ygor
The lightning. It is good for you! Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightning!
[after the monster is struck by lightning]
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A Conversation About Unwanted Offerings
Degar
I heard you, walking up and down, master. Thought you might want something.
Richard Rinehart
No, I don't want anything.
Degar
Perhaps you'd like the evening paper?
Richard Rinehart
No, there's nothing in the papers.
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Interstellar Frequency and the Death Ray
Arthur Perry
They created the interstellar frequency, which is the death ray.
[explaining the mechanism of Dr. Houghland's death]
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Struggle for Power and Freedom
Armand Tesla
Andreas! Andreas!
[Offscreen, as Andreas walks in the woods]
Andreas Obry
You! You have no power over me! That was ended many years ago! I'm no longer your slave! Dr. Ainsley has cleansed me of all the evil you forced upon me! You can't bring it back! You can't! I won't let you! I won't!
[Suddenly seeing Tesla]
Armand Tesla
You're a fool, Andreas! A complete, utter fool! Your fate is to be what you are - as mine is to be what I am... your Master! Come here !
Andreas Obry
I won't!
Armand Tesla
Look at me, Andreas! Look at me! Andreas, come here!
[Commandingly]
Andreas Obry
Master, you have returned.
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A Warning Against Underestimating Power
Armand Tesla
You're a very brilliant woman, but a foolish one to pit your strength against mine!
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A Reflection on the Nature of Games
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
It has been a good game.
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A Theatrical Take on Vampirism
Count Mora
This vampire business, it has given me a great idea for a new act. Luna, in this new act I will be the vampire. Did you watch me? I gave all of me. I was greater than any real vampire.
Luna Mora
Sure, sure, but get off your makeup.
Fourth Vampire
Yes, and help me with some of this packing.
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A Conversation About Comfort and Death
Patricia Hunter
Oh, professor, do you also make a habit of collecting coffins?
Dr. Lorenz
Why yes, in a manner of speaking. I find a coffin much more comfortable than a bed. Many people do so, my dear. Is it so strange, that I accept one while waiting for eternal rest?
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Inheritance and Betrayal Among Heirs
Sika
Why should the master have left his brother anything? He never cared for him; never came to see him while he was alive.
Degar
Perhaps he will be the first of the heirs to die.
Sika
According to the master's will, the rest of us will inherit his share.
Degar
Nothing but MURDER!
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Confrontation with Hidden Truths
Martin the Chauffeur
I was right! When I said they was... undertakers!
Degar
Remember... you have seen... NOTHING!
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The Red Switch and Its Consequences
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
It's the red switch, isn't it Hjalmar? The red switch ignites the dynamite. (He activates one of the large switches.) Five minutes and Marmaros, you and I, and your rotten cult will be no more...
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A Conversation About Loss and Assistance
Dr. Richard Marlowe
My wife...this young lady is going to help you.
Stella Saunders
Is your wife ill?
Dr. Richard Marlowe
She's dead.
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Confrontation Over Survival Among Thieves
Dr. Felix Benet
We expected you.
Dr. Janos Rukh
I knew that. Five thieves. Two are gone, three are left.
Dr. Felix Benet
Do you intend to kill us all?
Dr. Janos Rukh
Yes.
Dr. Felix Benet
I felt it was better to let things alone when you were first poisoned. I warned you about your brain!
Dr. Janos Rukh
It began to affect my brain almost immediately. I could feel it coming, crawling through the cells.
Dr. Felix Benet
Aren't there ever moments when you think as you used to think, when you were human?
Dr. Janos Rukh
Not often, now, not often.
Dr. Felix Benet
And because of that, we must die.
Dr. Janos Rukh
No, because you are thieves. Five thieves, all thieves! It will be easiest just to shake hands. It will all be over in a second.
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A Toast to Old Wine and Vampiric Habits
Count Dracula
This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
Renfield
Aren't you drinking?
Count Dracula
I never drink...wine.
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Confrontation Over the Monster's Fate
Ygor
How does it feel to face a man you thought your brother killed, doctor?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
What do you want?
Ygor
The monster is with me. He's the one in the police station, but he won't be there for long. You will bring him here.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
The law must take its course.
Ygor
Law! What can the law do to him?
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Mistakes Lead to Important Stories
Scientist
Pull the string! Pull the string! A mistake is made. A story must be told.
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The Mind's Tricks in Dreams
Dr. Lorenz
You see, our dreams, our minds play strange tricks on us sometimes!
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Curiosity About Evening Attire and Burial
Hitchcock
I'm curious to know why you always sleep in your evening clothes.
Von Housen
Really?
Hitchcock
Yes, Master.
Von Housen
I was buried in them.
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The Burden of a Dark Legacy
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
Ever since the day my father put life into that creature, it has been a curse. The terrible consequences of his creation killed my father, drove my brother into exile. The monster shall not ruin my life. I'm happy here. I have a lovely daughter, friends. They know nothing of all this.
Ygor
You wouldn't like to spoil that, doctor. Would you? You wouldn't want me to tell them that you're the son of the Frankenstein that created him, that your brother made the thing live after it had been dead for years. Do you want me to tell them, Frankenstein?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
No! No.
Ygor
All right. Then you'll make the police to hand him over to you.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein
Yes. I could do that.
Ygor
And you will do it, Frankenstein.
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Coincidental Absences and Unexpected Events
Jack Marsden
Why is it something always happens when YOU'RE not here?
Peters
Unfortunate coincidence, sir.
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A Long-Awaited Reunion
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
It has been a long time Hjalmar. The years have been kind to you.
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Coffee Preferences in a Casual Conversation
Murkil
Would you care for the last cup of coffee, sir?
Albert Tuttle
Yes, I would. What kind of coffee is this? You know, there are two classes of coffee, Murkil. There's the percolated and there's the drip.
Murkil
This is percolated.
Albert Tuttle
Sorry, I'm a drip.
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A Search for a New Resting Place
Armand Tesla
Come Andreas. I must find a new resting place. There you will bring the coffin with my native soil... and then, Andreas, I have other plans!
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Harnessing Hate from Monstrous Ugliness
Dr. Richard Vollin
Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hatred. Good! I can use your hate.
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Haunted by Jean's Presence in My Mind
Dr. Richard Vollin
Jean torments me. She has come into my life! Into my brain!
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Fear as a preferable state
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
After all, better to be frightened than to be crushed.
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Desire for Life and Control
Stella Saunders
What do you want with me?
Dr. Richard Marlowe
Your will to live! Your mind!
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City at the Mercy of Destruction
Dr. Felix Benet
I believe that this city is at the mercy of a madman whose body is an engine of destruction.
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A Memorable Addition to the Family
Countess Lorenz
She's a most unusual type. Such fascinating eyes.
Dr. Lorenz
She'll make a charming addition to our family.
Countess Lorenz
June Twentieth...
Dr. Lorenz
A date we shall not forget.
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Bats and Family Connections
Von Housen
When I came in, I saw you looking at that painting. Do you like bats?
Mrs. Riley
No, I hate them. They give me cold shivers up and down me brisket.
Von Housen
That's a great pity. That happens to be my brother.
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A Choice Between Death and Life
Ygor
Better death... than a life like this.
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Unexpected Arrival and Introductions Among Friends
Dr. Foster
Good evening, Professor Lorenz, Countess. May I present Miss Patricia Hunter?
Patricia Hunter
How do you do?
Dr. Lorenz
We have been expecting you.
Patricia Hunter
So you found my bag in your truck?
Dr. Lorenz
Yes. There it is.
Dr. Foster
Miss Hunter's a newspaperwoman.
Patricia Hunter
I came here hoping you might grant me an interview.
Dr. Lorenz
An interview? About what?
Countess Lorenz
No one asked you to come here. You're not welcome!
Dr. Loren
Control yourself, my dear! I'm sure Miss Hunter meant no harm. Please forgive my wife, she is not well. Come, you had better retire.
Patricia Hunter
So that's what you call being eccentric. Well I have another name for it.
[to Foster]
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A Mother's Despair and a Doctor's Cruelty
Fagah
Why do you beat my son so hard?
Dr. Lorenz
Because he's at best an animal, and someday I shall have to destroy him.
Fagah
My poor son!... Why was he ever born?
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Welcome to the Night's Music
Count Dracula
I am Dracula.
Renfield
Oh. It's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage, and... well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.
Count Dracula
I bid you welcome.
Count Dracula
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Count Dracula
The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Renfield
Why, er... yes.
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Appreciating Coffee Together
Matthews
Such fine coffee.
Murkil
Isn't it?
Carol Dunlap
Oh, Albert!
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Desire for Power and Threat of Destruction
Princess Nadji
So, unless my people will join in making you a modern pharaoh, you will annihilate them?
Roxor
Pharaoh? I shall be greater than any pharaoh! Civilization and all its works shall be destroyed! Men shall return to savagery following only one supreme intelligence... me!
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Caution in a Dangerous Situation
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
We must bide our time until others aren't involved. This place is so undermined with dynamite that the slightest mistake by one of us would cause the destruction of all. Until I tell you different, you are his servant, not mine.
[to Thamal]
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Invisible Evidence in Bright Light
Dr. Felix Benet
You observe: those finger marks cannot be seen in the light!
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The Flame of Truth and Heresy
Dr. Mirakle
Heresy? Do they still burn men for heresy? Then burn me monsieur, light the fire! Do you think your little candle will outshine the flame of truth?
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A Plea for Help Ignored
Andreas Obry
Help me, Master. I am hurt!
Armand Tesla
What is that to me?
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Dracula's Reflection on Wisdom and Apology
Count Dracula
Doctor Seward. My humble apology. I dislike mirrors. Van Helsing will explain. For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
[after breaking a mirror]
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Threat of Slow Torture
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
Do you know what I am going to do to you now? No? Did you ever see an animal skinned, Hjalmar? Ha, ha, ha. That's what I'm going to do to you now — fare the skin from your body...slowly...bit by bit!
[to Poelzig]
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The Pursuit of Human-Ape Connection
Dr. Mirakle
My life is consecrated to great experiment. I tell you I will prove your kinship with the ape. Eric's blood will be mixed with the blood of man!
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The Glorious Nature of Death
Count Dracula
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!
Mina
Why, Count Dracula!
Count Dracula
There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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