George Zucco Quotes

Dr. Alfred Morris We have lethal gases which are used for a definite purpose... to kill. The poison gas of the natives had a definite purpose, but it not bring death, though, but death in life... or, if you prefer, life in death.

Sherlock Holmes You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I admire it so much I'd like to present it pickled in alcohol to the London Medical Society.

Professor Moriarty That would make an interesting exhibit. Holmes, you've only now barely missed sending me to the gallows. You're the one man in England clever enough to defeat me. The situation has become impossible.

Sherlock Holmes Have you any suggestions?

Professor Moriarty I'm going to break you, Holmes. I'm going to bring off right under your nose the most incredible crime of the century and you'll never suspect it until it's too late. That will be the end of you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. And when I've beaten and ruined you then I can retire in peace. I'd like to retire; crime no longer amuses me. I'd like to devote my remaining years to abstract science.

Leo Grainger Oh, by the way. I'm afraid I had to send the launch back to the mainland for some slight repairs. It'll be back in the morning, probably. In th meantime I'm quite sure that you'll find every convenience on this island. Except, of course, the telephone. Dinner will be at eight-thirty.

Constable of Clervaux If you are the Maid and I don't say that you are- but if you are, I have a message from the people of Clervaux. It's this, go with God and save France. Save France and save our people.

The Bishop of Avranches I warn you, you the so-called judges, you may succeed in sending this girl to the stake, but one day, your English king will be ashamed of these proceedings. Rome will declare the truth about this girl, and France will praise the Maid for its birth as one nation!

Ted Allison I can't help feeling a sense of evil in all this.

Dr. Alfred Morris Moral concepts? I'm a scientist. To me there is no good or evil, only true or false. Work with one; discard the other.

Dr. Alfred Morris You fool! You madman! What have you done?

Ted Allison I'm sending this evil back into the darkness!

Dr. Alfred Morris Ted, you're mad! You can't do this!

Ted Allison You're wrong, Doctor. There's nothing left of it now but you, and me, and this!

Amos Bradford It's too bad you weren't born without a tongue, instead of without a brain.

Andoheb Now swear by the sacred gods of Egypt, that you will never rest until the last remaining member of the Banning family is destroyed.

Mehemet Bey I swear!

Dr. Alfred Morris I could use an assistant. How'd you like to spend your vacation helping me with my experiments at home?

Ted Allison Would I? Say, there isn't a fellow in class who wouldn't give a leg to work with you in the lab!

Dr. Alfred Morris Oh, that's rather more than the privilege is worth. You needn't give me a leg, just lend me a hand.

John Kavanaugh This is a curious place.

Leo Grainger Yes. Strangely enough, it was built by pirates. But YOU shouldn't have any trouble finding your way around.

Dawes You wanted to see me, sir?

Professor Moriarty I'm away for a few weeks, Dawes, and I come back to find my anthurium magenta, my incomparable anthurium magenta, withered, ruined...

Dawes I can't understand it, sir; I took good care of all the plants.

Professor Moriarty Did you water them?

Professor Moriarty Then how does it happen that I find a spider's web spun across the spout of the watering can?

Dawes That can happen overnight, sir.

Professor Moriarty Overnight, huh? Then you didn't water them today?

Dawes There's been so much to do, sir, preparing for your coming back.

Professor Moriarty Nothing is as important as the care of my flowers. Through your neglect, this flower has died. You've murdered a flower!

Dawes Why, I'm sorry, sir.

Professor Moriarty To think that for merely murdering a man I was incarcerated for six whole weeks in a filthy prison cell.

Dawes A pity, sir!

Professor Moriarty A travesty on justice!

Dawes Quite so, sir.

Professor Moriarty And for this crime, Dawes, you should be flogged, broken on the wheel, drawn and quartered...

Dawes Yes, sir. Will that be all, sir?

Professor Moriarty ...and boiled in oil!

Dawes Thank you, sir.

Professor Moriarty Go away.

Dawes Yes, sir.

Professor Andoheb You are very beautiful... so beautiful I'm going to make you immortal. Like Kharis, you will live forever. What I can do for you I can do for myself. Neither time nor death can touch us. You and I together for eternity here in the Temple of Karnak. You shall be my high priestess.

Amos Bradford He's suffering from rabid delusions aggravated by a moronic mentality.

Andy Is that bad?

Amos Bradford With your imagination, you could see the Statue of Liberty do the conga!

Leo Grainger I invited you out here for, let me say, retribution. Now, retribution's an odd word. It can mean so many things. It could mean reward - the return of money you think I stole from you. It could mean giving you an opportunity of getting even with me. Or with each other. It could mean revenge - taking a life for a life. You see, one of you killed something very dear to me. It might have been friendship, it might have been my ideals, it might have been my wife. Perhaps she never knew it, but I happened to love Kama. She was more than just a wife to me. She was my ideal, my friend. Whichever one of you killed her will kill again, and just as wantonly. So let me warn you - the innocent, mind you - to beware of the murderer whenever he, or she, finds it necessary to strike again. And that, my dear friends, concludes the business of the evening. Now. Let's all be as socialble as we can, hmm?

Dr. Alfred Morris Reports of your death seem to be greatly exaggerated.

John Kavanaugh This is a curious place.

Leo Grainger Yes. Strangely enough, it was built by pirates. But YOU shouldn't have any trouble finding your way around.

Palanth, the High Priest If my people knew anyone posed as Balu, they would destroy him.

Tarzan If people know Balu a man, they destroy you.