Dracula (1931) - Quotes

Maid's Assessment of Character's Mental State

Maid: He's crazy!

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The Allure of Power and Obedience

Renfield: He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.

Van Helsing: Doing them?

Renfield: By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red, like his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red-blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!

Van Helsing: What did he want you to do?

Renfield: [giggles sinisterly] That which has already been done!

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The Nature of Madness and Strength

Renfield: Isn't this a strange conversation, for men who aren't crazy?

Dr. Jack Seward: Renfield! You're compelling me to put you in a straitjacket!

Van Helsing: You forget, doctor, that madmen have great strength. Dracula has great strength. Eh, Renfield?

Renfield: Words, words, words!

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Unfamiliarity with Dracula Revealed in Conversation

Van Helsing: What have you to do with Dracula?

Renfield: Dracula? I've never even heard the name before.

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Anxiety Over Disturbing Mina's Peace

Renfield: Oh, Dr. Seward! Send me away from this place! Send me far away!

Van Helsing: Why are you so anxious to get away?

Renfield: My cries at night, they might disturb miss Mina.

Van Helsing: Yes?

Renfield: They might give her bad dreams, Professor Van Helsing. Bad dreams!

Van Helsing: That sounded like a wolf.

Dr. Jack Seward: Yes, it did. But I hardly think there are wolves so near London.

Martin: He thinks they're wolves. Me, I've heard them howl at night before. He thinks they're talking to him! He howls and howls back at them. He's crazy!

Van Helsing: I might have known. I might have known.

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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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Consequences of Innocence and Madness

Van Helsing: You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.

Renfield: God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.

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A Disturbing Discovery Outside

Maid: Oh, Mr. Harker! Oh, Mr. Harker, it's horrible! Oh, it's horrible! Dr. Seward! Miss Mina... Out there, dead!

Dr. Jack Seward: Out where?

Maid: Out there!

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The Intersection of Myth and Science

Van Helsing: Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead...Yes, Nosferatu, the undead, the vampire. The vampire attacks the throat. It leaves two little wounds, white with red centers. Dr. Seward, your patient Renfield whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things in order to sustain his own life.

Dr. Seward: Well, Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science does not admit of such a creature. The vampire is a pure myth, superstition.

Van Helsing: I may be able to bring you proof, that the superstition of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.

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A Debate Over Unusual Food Preferences

Renfield: [in a tormented tone; Martin disposes of the spider out the window] No, Martin. Martin don't! Don't throw my spider away from me! Oh Martin, no!

Martin: Ain't ya ashamed now! Ain't ya? Spiders now, is it? Flies ain't good enough.

Renfield: Flies! Flies! Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?

Martin: You do, you loony!

Renfield: Not when I can get nice fat spiders.

Martin: All right. Have it your own way.

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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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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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A Mysterious Carriage at Borgo Pass

Renfield: Well, I'm sorry, but there's a carriage meeting me at Borgo Pass at midnight.

Innkeeper: Borgo Pass?

Renfield: Yes.

Innkeeper: Whose carriage?

Renfield: Count Dracula's.

Innkeeper: Count Dracula's?

Renfield: Yes.

Innkeeper: [fearfully] Castle Dracula?

Renfield: Yes, that's where I'm going.

Innkeeper: To the castle?

Renfield: Yes.

Innkeeper: [tremulously] Nooo. You mustn't go there. We people of the mountains believe at the Castle there are vampires. Dracula and his wives - they take the form of wolves and bats. They leave their coffins at night and they feed on the blood of the living.

Renfield: But that's all superstition. Why I, I can't understand why...

Innkeeper: Come, we must go indoors.

Renfield: It's a matter of business with me. I've got to go. Really. Well, goodnight.

Innkeeper's wife: Wait. Please. If you must go, wear this for your mother's sake. It will protect you.

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A Toast to the Dead and Dying

Lucy Weston: Lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter as though the dead were there... Quaff a cup to the dead already, hooray for the next to die!

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Mina's Encounter with Dracula

Mina Harker: Dracula, he...He came to me. He opened his veins in his arms and he made me drink.

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Haunting Visions of Fear and Weakness

Mina Harker: [whimpering] And just as I was commencing to get drowsy, I heard dogs howling. And when the dream came, it seemed the whole room was filled with mist. It was so thick, I could just see the lamp by the bed, a tiny spark in the fog. And then I saw two red eyes staring at me, and a white livid face came down out of the mist. It came closer and closer. I felt its breath on my face, and then its lips, ohhh, ...And then, in the morning, I felt so weak. It seemed as if all the life had been drained out of me.

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Understanding the Nature of Vampires

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing: A vampire, Mr. Harker, is a being that lives after its death by drinking the blood of the living. It must have blood or it dies. Its power lasts only from sunset to sunrise. During the hours of the day, it must rest in the earth in which it was buried.

The Illusion of the Vampire's Power

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing: A vampire casts no reflection in the glass. That is why Dracula smashed the mirror...The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

Astonishing Discovery Challenges My Judgment

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing: A moment ago, I stumbled on a most amazing phenomenon...something so incredible, I mistrust my own judgement.

The Burden of Hidden Knowledge

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing: Mr. Harker. I have devoted my lifetime to the study of many strange things, little-known facts which the world is perhaps better off for not knowing.

Monitoring Renfield's Behavior Day and Night

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing: Seward, I want you to have Renfield closely watched by day and night. Especially by night.

Renfield's Plea for Mercy and Loyalty

Renfield: I'm loyal to you Master, I m your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me, torture me, but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience! All that blood on my hands!

Renfield's Plea of Innocence

Renfield: I didn't lead them here, Master! I didn't know, I swear!

Threat of Knowledge in Dracula

Renfield: You know too much to live, Van Helsing!

Loyalty to the Master

Renfield: No, no, Master! I wasn't going to say anything! I told them nothing! I'm loyal to you, Master!

Renfield's Warning to Doctor Seward

Renfield: I'm warning you, Doctor Seward! If you don't send me away, you must answer for what will happen to Miss Mina.

Renfield's Assurance of Safety to Master

Renfield: Master, we're here. You can't hear what I'm saying but we're here. We're safe.

Renfield's Loyalty to His Master

Renfield: You will keep your promise when we get to London, won't you Master? You will see that I get lives, not human lives but small ones, with blood in them? I'll be loyal to you Master. I'll be loyal.

Renfield Acknowledges the Absence of Sunlight

Renfield: [opening the coffin on the ship] Master, the sun is gone!

Count Dracula's Command to Obey

Count Dracula: And after you deliver the message, you will remember nothing, I now say...Obey.

Dracula's Reflection on Wisdom and Apology

Count Dracula: [after breaking a mirror] 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.