House of Usher Quotes

Roderick Usher Mr. Winthrop, three-quarters of my family have fallen into madness, and in their madness have acquired a, a superhuman strength... so that it took the power of many to subdue them.

Taglines He buried her alive... to save his soul!

Misattributed * Misattributed to Price's performance in this film. The quote appears to have been based on a misremembering by ] on an episode of ]. The actual lines Fry appears to have referenced are "If you'd please, Mr. Winthrop...softly. An affliction of the hearing. Sounds of any exaggerated degree cut into my brain like knives" and "Any sort of garment other then the softest, is agony to my flesh. My eyes are tormented by all but the faintest illumination. Odors assail me constantly, and as I've said, sounds of any degree whatsoever inspire me with terror.

Misattributed Pray, speak quietly, every sound you make is such exquisite agony to me.

Taglines The House of Usher is no more - and the place whereon it stood is as if - it had never been.

Philip Winthrop How long has that been going on?

Bristol So long I'm hardly aware of it anymore. It's just the settling of the house.

Philip Winthrop That settling could cause this entire structure to collapse. That doesn't worry you?

Bristol Oh no, sir. If the house dies, I shall die with it.

Roderick Usher Be done.

Philip Winthrop What?

Roderick Usher I think I rave.

Philip Winthrop You said be done.

Roderick Usher See to the crypt, will you?

Philip Winthrop Would you permit me to light a candle so that...?

Roderick Usher I think you had better leave, Mr. Winthrop.

Philip Winthrop I think you need some light in this house, Mr. Usher.

Roderick Usher Madeline and I are like figures of fine glass. The slightest touch and we may shatter. Both of us suffer from a morbid acuteness of the senses. Mine is the worst for having existed the longer, but both of us are afflicted with it. Any sort of food more exotic then the most pallid mash is unendurable to my taste buds. Any sort of garment other then the softest, is agony to my flesh. My eyes are tormented by all but the faintest illumination. Odors assail me constantly, and as I've said, sounds of any degree whatsoever inspire me with terror.

Philip Winthrop That's why your servant asked me to remove my boots?

Roderick Usher Yes... and even so I could hear you coming: every footstep, every rustle of your clothes. I could hear your horse approaching, hear the clatter of his hooves across the courtyard, your knock - the grating of the door bolt was like a sword-stroke to my ears... I can hear the scratch of rat claws within the stone wall!

Taglines Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher

Philip Winthrop How long have you been with the Ushers?

Bristol Sixty years, sir.

Philip Winthrop Sixty years?

Bristol Since I was a boy.

Philip Winthrop Why, then this house is just as much yours as it is Mr. Usher's.

Bristol And Miss Madeline, sir.

Philip Winthrop Is there no end to your horrors?

Roderick Usher No. None whatever.

Philip Winthrop You have murdered your sister, Mr. Usher, and I intend to see that you hang for it.

Roderick Usher Arrange it quickly then. The old house crumbles.

Taglines I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb!

Roderick Usher Did you know that I could hear the scratching of her fingernails on the casket lid?

Philip Winthrop While I was riding here I noticed a singular lack of vegetation, is there something wrong with the soil?

Roderick Usher The soil?

Madeline Usher Roderick please!

Roderick Usher As you wish.

Roderick Usher I suggest you leave, Mr. Winthrop. No? Then perish with us.

Philip Winthrop Don't you think that crack in the wall should be repaired?

Roderick Usher For future generations of Ushers?

Philip Winthrop For Madeline's safety.

Taglines Edgar Allan Poe's overwhelming tale of EVIL & TORMENT