Sleepy Hollow Quotes

Ichabod Crane No. You must believe me. it was a horseman, a dead one. Headless.

Taglines Don't lose your head.

Taglines Heads will roll.

Ichabod Crane Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Crane So... three persons murdered. First, Peter Van Garrett and his son, Dirk Van Garrett. Both of them strong, capable men, found together... decapitated. One week later, the widow Winship. Also decapitated. Now, I will need to ask you many questions. But first, let me ask: Is anyone suspected?

Van Tassell How much have your superiors explained to you, constable?

Crane Only that the three were slain in open ground. Their heads found severed from their bodies.

Reverend Steenwyck Their heads were not found severed. Their heads were not found at all.

Crane The heads are... Gone?

Notary Hardenbrook Taken. Taken by the Headless Horseman. Taken back to hell.

Crane Pardon, I...I don't...

Van Tassell Perhaps you had best sit down? The Horseman was a Hessian mercenary, sent to these shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the Horseman came for love of carnage. When battle was joined, there you'd find him; he rode a giant black steed named Daredevil, and was infamous for riding his horse hard into battle, chopping off heads at full gallop. He'd filed his teeth down to sharp points, to add to the ferocity of his appearance. This butcher didn't finally meet his end until the winter of 79, not far from here in our western woods. They chopped off his head with his own sword; even today the western woods is a haunted place, where brave men will not venture...for what was planted in the ground that day was a seed of evil. And so it's been for 20 years...but now the Hessian wakes. He's on the rampage, cutting off heads where he finds them.

Crane Are you saying...? Is that what you believe?

Notary Hardenbrook Seeing is believing.

Katrina Anne Van Tassel I think you have no heart. And I had a mind once to give you mine.

Burgomaster There is a town upstate, two days journey to the north, in the Hudson Highlands. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it?

Crane I have not.

Burgomaster An isolated farming community, mainly Dutch. Three persons have been murdered there, all within a fortnight, each one found with the head lopped off.

Crane Lopped off?

Burgomaster Clean as dandelion heads," apparently. You will take these experimentations of yours to Sleepy Hollow, and there you will detect the murderer. Bring him here to face our good justice. Will you do this?

Crane I shall.

Burgomaster Remember, it is you, Ichabod Crane, who is now put to the test.

Young Masbath Is he... dead?

Crane That's the problem; he was dead to begin with.

Taglines A man of science. A woman of mystery. A legend that will never die.

Taglines Watch your head!

Taglines Myth is the past we cannot escape. Mystery is the omen we cannot face. Madness is the terror we cannot stop.

Taglines Your heads are history!

Lady Van Tassel Watch your heads! (An Irish take on the expression "Mind your heads")

Taglines Who will it come for next?

Crane Gentlemen: murder needs no ghosts come from the grave. We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins.

Van Tassel You are a long way from New York, constable.

Katrina Anne Van Tassel Goodbye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow

Katrina I have shed my tears for Brom, and yet my heart is not broken. Do you think me wicked?

Crane No... but perhaps there is a little bit of witch in you, Katrina.

Katrina Why do you say that?

Crane Because you have bewitched me.

Taglines You can lock the doors. You can bolt the windows. But can you survive the night?

Taglines Close your eyes. Say your prayers. Sleep if you can.

Crane We take the Indian Trail to the Tree of the Dead.

Young Masbath How will we recognize it?

Crane Without difficulty, I rather fear.

Taglines On November 19, he rides again.