Blood for Dracula (1974) - Quotes

A Dark Connection Between Life and Death

Taglines: He'll go right to your neck and you'll go right to his heart.

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Desperate Need for Virgin's Blood

Taglines: He couldn't live without a virgin's blood..... ...So a virgin had to die!

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Unexpected Opportunity in a Dark Situation

Dracula: How can you leave me alone for so long in this condition? Where have you been?

Anton: I have splendid news for you. The Di Fiore family invited us to stay at the house, especially to meet to their daughters. We go there tomorrow.

Dracula: I don't think I have ze strength to make myself presentable. You have seen what's happened to me before.

Anton: [displays a blood-soaked loaf of bread; [car|cur; [girl|gurl] Look at this . An extraordinary thing occurred. I was in the tavern to get some more information about ze Di Fiore family, when someone came in shouting that a girl had been hit by a ] and was bleeding. I had to think quickly. I took some bread and ran out. I made my way to the center of ze crowd, and there in a pool of blood was a mutilated body of a young ]. I pretended to faint at the sight of her, fell, falling into ze blood. I could feel ze blood zeeping into ze bread. They picked me up, but not before the bread was soaked with her blood.

Dracula: Her age, Anton? Her age?

Anton: She could not have been more than twelve or thirteen.

Dracula: [snatches the bloody bread and sucks ravenously] ... Ummm ... Ummm ...

Anton: Was it good?

Dracula: It works. It works! She was pure.

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The Marks of Count Dracoola's Kiss

Perla: What are those marks?

Rubinia: The kiss of Count Dracoola.

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Innocence and Ignorance Explored in Dialogue

Dracula: You don't know what boys do with little girls?

Saphiria: No.

Dracula: Your sister never taught you?

Dracula: You are a wirgin?

Saphiria: Yes.

Dracula: You telling me the trooth?

Saphiria: Yes.

Dracula: [attacks her] I believe you .

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Class Differences and Romantic Aspirations

Mario Balato: I don't see why someone like me couldn't marry you, or one of your sisters.

Rubinia: Are you crazy?

Mario Balato: [[socialism] Yeah... your mother'd never hear of such a thing. Had a good look at him in that wheelchair, almost about to die. That's the way it is with all that rich trash. They're all sick and rotten. The only future's in ].

Rubinia: Don't start talking about that again! You know how it bores me.

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Obsessions and Misunderstandings in Relationships

Rubinia: Well, if you must know, this man is obsessed with marrying a virgin.

Mario Balato: O well, you didn't tell me this. So what's he doin with you two whores?

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The Importance of Titles in Italy

Anton: [[virgin|wirgin] There are many reason. The Italian people will be impressed by your title, and you can find ].

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Perfection in Names and Their Meanings

Il Marchese di Fiore: [[East–West dichotomy|Orient and Occident] I have never met a more perfect a name on the heraldic mark't. Your father, my children, can undarstand the substance of a form, the pulp of the fruit, by the peel that covers it. There are wine tasters and name tasters. Yes, Dracula. Just the right amount of ], of a reality and farntasy. If I were not too afraid of making literature or rhetoric out of it, I might add that it has borrowed some ingredient from the Count of Monte Cristo, or even Sinbad the Sailor.

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Fascination with the Name Dracula

Il Marchese di Fiore: Dracula, did you say? Dra-cu-la. The sound is so intriguing. Three syllables. Dra, cu, la. I think I like that name.

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The Overlooked Wisdom of a Dismissed House

Il Marchese di Fiore: In this house, one can say the most intelligent, most poetical things—and nobody takès any notice.

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The Fragility of Over-Cultivated Beauty

Il Marchese di Fiore: [[perfume|parfume] Flowers that are too cultivated lose some of their ]. They wither more quickly.

Anton inquires about a girl's age

Anton: How old are you, little girl?

Dracula's Struggle with Treatment Limitations

Count Dracula: My body can't take this treatment any more.

Desire for purity drives Dracula's intentions

Count Dracula: It must be tonight. The girls are beautiful, they look so pure... but how can we get at them?

Dracula's Discontent with Available Food Options

Count Dracula: But they don't have ze food I eat. They only have chicken and vegetables I've never seen before. I am sure they have no wirgin meat.

The Importance of Home-Making Skills

Count Dracula: It's very useful for a woman to practise home-making.

Dracula's Frustration with Unwanted Journey

Count Dracula: Why did you take me on this hopeless... journey? let me go home and die in peace! what good is it to have tea when I can't find the right vegetable to go with it? I guess I have to eat the rest of the Romanian lettuce... with lemon. Ze oil! Zey put zo much oil here on everyting! But there must be some cheese?