Witchfinder General Quotes

Matthew Hopkins * from ]'s ]; included in the U.S. release

Matthew Hopkins I will find out the truth for you, have no fear.

Matthew Hopkins Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

Matthew Hopkins Out-out are the lights-out all!/And over each quivering form/The curtain, a funeral pall,/Comes down with the rush of a storm,/While the angels, all pallid and wan,/Uprising, unveiling, affirm/That the play is the tragedy, Man,'/And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Taglines They revelled in torture and murder all in the name of justice.

Matthew Hopkins They swim... the mark of Satan is upon them. They must hang.

Matthew Hopkins She was innocent.

Matthew Hopkins By the way, you know what they call me now?

John Stearne What?

Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General.

John Stearne He's after our blood!

Matthew Hopkins You're forgetting our powers... he could be a witch.

Taglines LEAVE THE CHILDREN HOME! ...and if YOU are SQUEAMISH STAY HOME WITH THEM!!

Taglines There's lots of screaming when there's this much at stake!

Matthew Hopkins Lo! Tis a gala night/Within the lonesome latter years./An angel throng, bewinged, bedight/In veils, and drowned in tears,/Sit in a theatre to see/A play of hopes and fears,/While the orchestra breathes fitfully/The music of the spheres.

Taglines Vincent Price unleashes a reign of fire and fury.

Gen. Oliver Cromwell The year is 1645, England is in the grip of bloody Civil War. On the one side stand the Royalist party of King Charles, on the other, Cromwell's Parliamentary party: the Roundheads. The Structure of law and order has collapsed. Local Magistrates indulge their individual whims, justice and injustice are dispensed in more or less equal quantities, without opposition. An atmosphere in which the unscrupulous revel, and the likes of Matthew Hopkins take full advantage of the situation. In a time where the superstitions of country folk are still a powerful factor, Hopkins preys upon them, torturing and killing in a supposed drive to eliminate witchcraft from the country, and doing so with the full blessing of what law there is. However, his influence is confined largely to the Eastern Sector of the country: East Anglia, which is held firmly in Cromwell's grasp, but not so firmly that Roundhead cavalry patrols have everything their way. For there persists an ever present threat of the remnants of the Royalist armies, desperately foraging for food, horses and supplies.

Swallow God!

Richard Marshall You took him away from me... you took him from me... you took him from me... you took him from me! YOU TOOK HIM FROM ME!

Swallow ... May God have mercy on us all.

Matthew Hopkins * from ]'s ]; included in the U.S. release

Swallow Stop that, Richard!

Richard Marshall What?

Swallow What you're thinking.

Richard Marshall What am I thinking?

Swallow Ungodly thoughts of your Sara, that's my guess.

Richard Marshall Thoughts of Sara? Yes. Ungodly? Depends on how you look at it.

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

Taglines In the midst of England's bloodiest civil war, Evil ignites.

Misattributed * Misattributed to Price's performance in this film, based on a misremembering by ] on an episode of ].

Taglines The depraved must die... BEWARE the Witch Hunter!