The Penalty Quotes

Blizzard You have worked in the dark long enough - this is the plan I have been developing for two years. At twelve noon on that day I shall loot the City of San Francisco. Your ten thousand foreign malcontents will filter into the city in small detachments. The signal will be an explosion. By fire and riots I shall draw the police and military into the suburbs. The heart of the city will be left defenseless - ours to loot at will. And then we shall vanish with our treasure.

Blizzard Better come out of that closet or I'll begin to shoot!

Blizzard Crying won't help - talking may.

Rose What's the use - - you're going to kill me anyhow.

Lichtenstein I could get him for theft, arson, murder - - but his criminal machine would still grind on. Through the Master I must reach his slaves - the underground powers of the Reds. He's gathered up his dance hall girls and he's put them to work in his house - making hats - thousands of hats. I must know why!

Title Card In time the man would mangle the soul of the daughter, even as the father had mangled the body of the man.

Blizzard And I shall walk as men walk. I shall be the master of a city! And for my mangled years the city shall pay me - - - - with the pleasures of a Nero and the powers of a Caesar!

Blizzard I've waked from a terrible dream! I was a devil - - I did things that I shudder to think of!

Doctor Good God, you should not have amputated!

Dr. Ferris What?

Doctor You have mangled this child for life!

Barbara Ferris How do you happen to know so much about Art?

Blizzard My father, who shall be nameless, was a distinguished man. But he detested little boys with their legs clipped off. So at fifteen I hobbled out of his life.

Blizzard Laughter burns a cripple like acid.

Blizzard Once before a woman surfeited me with her caresses. She's dead!

Barbara Ferris Why do you live in the underworld?

Blizzard When Satan fell from Heaven he looked for power in Hell.

Taglines Blizzard, master of San Francisco's underworld, legless, deformed—the weirdest character ever presented on the screen—you'll never forget him.

Blizzard Fate chained me to evil, for that I must pay the Penalty. - That is a great puzzle. Perhaps I am going to see it solved.

Blizzard Rose, my dear! Under the piano, my darling - we'll have some music. I have a feeling I shall waft you into Heaven.

Blizzard Some excellent judges think that I resemble Satan.

Blizzard Do I look like Satan? Before I am through with her and her father, they'll think I'm the devil himself.

Blizzard Everything comes to him who waits.

Blizzard I am the unhappiest beast in the world.