Mae Clarke Quotes

Henry Elizabeth, please, won't you go away? Won't you trust me, just for tonight?

Elizabeth You're ill. What's the matter?

Henry Nothing. I'm quite all right, truly I am. Oh, can't you see? I mustn't be disturbed. You'll ruin everything. My experiment is almost completed.

Elizabeth Wait a moment. I understand. I believe in you. But I cannot leave you tonight.

Henry You've got to leave!

Victor Henry, you're inhuman. You're crazy.

Henry Crazy, am I? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not. Come on up...

Henry It's like heaven, being with you again.

Elizabeth Heaven wasn't so far away all the time, you know.

Henry I know, but I didn't realize it. My work. Those horrible days and nights. I couldn't think of anything else.

Elizabeth Henry. You're not to think of those things anymore. You promised.

Glenda Thomas Am I glad you caught up with me again.

Jeffrey King It's getting to be a habit that I'd like to break.

Jeffrey King The best you can do is help yourself to a ride back to town. The highway is right over there.

Maid If you please, Herr Baron, the burgomaster.

Baron Well, tell him to go away.

Maid But he says it's important.

Baron Nothing the burgomaster can say can be of the slightest importance.

Vogel Good day, Herr Baron. Frulein.

Baron Well, what do you want? if it's trouble, go away. I've trouble enough.

Vogel Oh, there's no trouble, sir.

Baron What do you mean, "no trouble"? there's nothing but trouble.

Vogel I brought you these flowers.

Elizabeth Thank you, Herr Vogel.

Elizabeth Henry. I'm afraid. Terribly afraid. Where's Dr. Waldman? Why is he late for the wedding?

Henry Oh, he's always late. He'll be here soon.

Elizabeth Something is going to happen. I feel it. I can't get it out of my mind.

Henry You're just nervous. All the excitement and preparation.

Elizabeth No, no. It isn't that. I felt it all day. Something is coming between us. I know it! I know it!

Henry Sit down and rest. You look so tired.

Elizabeth If I could just do something to save us from it.

Henry From what, dear, from what?

Elizabeth I don't know. If I could just get it out of my mind. Oh, I'd die if I had to lose you now, Henry.

Henry Lose me? Why, I'll always be with you.

Elizabeth Will you, Henry? Are you sure? I love you so.

Edward van Sloan How do you do? Mr. Carl Laemmle feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture without just a word of friendly warning. We are about to unfold the story of Frankenstein, a man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God. It is one of the strangest tales ever told. It deals with the two great mysteries of creation — life and death. I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even — horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now's your chance to — uh, well, we warned you.

Elizabeth The very day we announced our engagement, he told me of his experiments. He said he was on the verge of a discovery so terrific that he doubted his own sanity. There was a strange look in his eyes, some mystery. His words carried me right away. Of course I've never doubted him but still I worry. I can't help it.

Dr. Waldman Herr Frankenstein is a most brilliant young man, yet so erratic he troubles me.

Villagers Burn the mill! Burn it down! Burn the mill!

Waldman Herr Frankenstein is greatly changed.

Victor You mean changed as a result of his work?

Waldman Yes, his work, his insane ambition to create life.

Elizabeth How? How? Please tell us everything, whatever it is.

Waldman The bodies we use in our dissecting room for lecture purposes were not perfect enough for his experiments, he said. He wished us to supply him with other bodies and we were not to be too particular as to where and how we got them. I told him that his demands were unreasonable. And so he left the University to work unhampered. He found what he needed elsewhere.

Victor Oh! The bodies of animals. Well, what are the lives of a few rabbits and dogs?

Waldman You do not quite get what I mean. Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life — first to destroy it, then recreate it. There you have his mad dream.

Victor Perhaps he can tell me more about all this.

Elizabeth Oh Victor, you're a dear.

Victor You know I'd go to the ends of the earth for you.

Elizabeth I shouldn't like that. I'm far too fond of you.

Victor I wish you were!

Elizabeth Victor.

Victor I'm sorry.