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Denn die Todten reiten schnell—("For the dead travel fast")
Jonathan Harker's Journal, 4 May. From Bürger's "Lenore"
Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.
I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!"
Jonathan Harker's Journal
I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.
Count Dracula to Jonathan Harker
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.
Dracula to Jonathan Harker
"Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make."
Dracula describing the howling of wolves to Jonathan Harker
"Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!"
Dracula to Jonathan Harker
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
Jonathan Harker's Journal
They whispered together, and then they all three laughed—such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips. It was like the intolerable, tingling sweetness of water-glasses when played on by a cunning hand.
Jonathan Harker's Journal, 16 May
"He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all."
Jonathan Harker's Journal, 16 May. Spoken by one of the Brides of Dracula
Despair has its own calms.
Jonathan Harker's Journal, 28 May
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Jonathan Harker's Journal, 25 June, morning
The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.
Jonathan Harker's Journal, 29 June
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra, 9 May
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray, 24 May
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
Mina Murray's Journal, 6 August
Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Mina Murray's Journal, 12 August
He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day; and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind.
Letter from Dr. Seward to Arthur Holmwood, 2 September
Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
Professor Abraham Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward
Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
Van Helsing to Dr. Seward
He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
Dr. John Seward
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, with such unknown horrors as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with "virgin crants and maiden strewments." I never liked garlic before, but to-night it is delightful! There is peace in its smell; I feel sleep coming already. Good-night, everybody.
Lucy Westenra's Diary
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
The Keeper in the Zoological Gardens
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play.
Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh. See, I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the true laughter. No! he is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.' Behold, in example I grieve my heart out for that so sweet young girl; I give my blood for her, though I am old and worn; I give my time, my skill, my sleep; I let my other sufferers want that so she may have all. And yet I can laugh at her very grave — laugh when the clay from the spade of the sexton drop upon her coffin and say 'Thud, thud!' to my heart, till it send back the blood from my cheek. My heart bleed for that poor boy — that dear boy, so of the age of mine own boy had I been so blessed that he live, and with his hair and eyes the same. There, you know now why I love him so. And yet when he say things that touch my husband-heart to the quick, and make my father-heart yearn to him as to no other man — not even you, friend John, for we are more level in experiences than father and son — yet even at such a moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear, 'Here I am! here I am!' till the blood come dance back and bring some of the sunshine that he carry with him to my cheek. Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John, that he is good to come, and kind. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be."
Dr. Seward's Diary, 22 September
"Friend John, forgive me if I pain. I showed not my feeling to others when it would wound, but only to you, my old friend, whom I can trust. If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh; if you could have done so when the laugh arrived; if you could do so now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him — for he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time — maybe you would perhaps pity me the most of all."
I was touched by the tenderness of his tone, and asked why.
"Because I know!"
Professor Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward, in Dr. Seward's Diary, 22 September
And now we are all scattered; and for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. Lucy lies in the tomb of her kin, a lordly death-house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises over Hampstead Hill, and where wild flowers grow of their own accord.
Dr. Seward's Diary, 22 September
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them.
"Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours."
Jonathan Harker's Journal
You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young, like the fine ladies at the opera.
Van Helsing to Dr. Seward
My thesis is this: I want you to believe.
Van Helsing to Dr. Seward
One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
The world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.
Mina Harker's Journal
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
Mr. Morris to Mina Harker
She has man's brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman's heart.
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
Dr. Seward's Diary.
You think to baffle me, you—with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!
Dracula, having found Jonathan Harker, Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood in his house
But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong together.
Dr. Seward's Phonograph Diary, spoken by Van Helsing
The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.
Mina Harker's Journal, 6 November
Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
Jonathan Harker
It is said of Mrs. Radcliffe that, when writing her now almost forgotten romances, she shut herself up in absolute seclusion, and fed upon raw beef, in order to give her work the desired atmosphere of gloom, tragedy and terror. If one had no assurance to the contrary, one might well suppose that a similar method and regimen had been adopted by Mr. Bram Stoker while writing his new novel Dracula.
Review in The Daily Mail (1 June 1897), p. 3
A writer who attempts in the nineteenth century to rehabilitate the ancient legends of the were-wolf and the vampire has set himself a formidable task. Most of the delightful old supersitions of the past have an unhappy way of appearing limp and sickly in the glare of a later day, and in such a story as Dracula, by Bram Stoker, the reader must reluctantly acknowledge that the region for horrors has shifted its ground. Man is no longer in dread of the monstrous and the unnatural, and although Mr. Stoker has tackled his gruesome subject with enthusiasm, the effect is more often grotesque than terrible. The Transylvanian site of Castle Dracula is skilfully chosen, and the picturesque region is well described. Count Dracula himself has been in his day a medieval noble, who, by reason of his "vampire" qualities, is unable to die properly, but from century to century resuscitates his life of the "Un-Dead," as the author terms it, by nightly draughts of blood from the throats of living victims, with the appalling consequence that those once so bitten must become vampires in their turn. The plot is too complicated for reproduction, but it says no little for the author's powers that in spite of its absurdities the reader can follow the story with interest to the end. It is, however, an artistic mistake to fill a whole volume with horrors. A touch of the mysterious, the terrible, or the supernatural is infinitely more effective and credible.
Review in The Manchester Guardian (15 June 1897) [1]
We will go no further, sir. Not for a fortune!
Horseman — Nosferatu (1922)
We will go no further. Here begins the land of phantoms.
Horseman — Nosferatu (1922)
Of course, it will cost you some effort... a little sweat and... perhaps... a little blood.
Knock — Nosferatu (1922)
Blood is life ! Blood is life!
Knock — Nosferatu (1922)
Go quickly, travel safely, my young friend, to the land of ghosts.
Knock — Nosferatu (1922)
You have hurt yourself... your precious blood!
Count Orlok — Nosferatu (1922)
Let us chat together a moment, my friend! There are still several hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep.
Count Orlok — Nosferatu (1922)
Is this your wife? What a lovely throat!
Count Orlok — Nosferatu (1922)
Astonishing, isn't it, gentlemen? That plant is the vampire of the vegetable kingdom.
Professor Bulwer — Nosferatu (1922)
As the sun rose, Harker felt himself freed from the oppressions of the night.
The Narrator — Nosferatu (1922)
[In the letter...] After my first night in this castle, I found two large bites on my neck. From mosquitoes? From spiders? I don't know...
Thomas Hutter — Nosferatu (1922)
[dictates into grammaphone] Established that victims consciously detest being dominated by vampirism but are unable to relinquish the practice, similar to addiction to drugs. Ultimately, death results from loss of blood. But, unlike normal death, no peace manifests itself for they enter into the fearful state of the undead. Since the death of Jonathan Harker, Count Dracula, the propagator of this unspeakable evil, has disappeared. He must be found and destroyed.
Abraham Van Helsing — Horror of Dracula (1958)
[to Arthur] Holmwood, the study of these creatures has been my life's work. I've carried out research with some of the greatest authorities in Europe and yet we've only just scratched the surface. You see, a great deal is known about the vampire bat. But details of these reanimated bodies of the dead...the UNdead as we call them...are so obscure that many biologists will not believe they exist. Of course, you're shocked and bewildered. How can you expect to understand in so short a time? But you've read and experienced enough to know that this unholy cult must be wiped out. I hope perhaps that you will help me.
Abraham Van Helsing — Horror of Dracula (1958)
The diary of Jonathan Harker: "May 3, 1885. At last my long journey is growing to its close. What the eventual end will be, I cannot foresee. But whatever may happen, I can rest secure that I will have done all in my power to achieve success. The last lap of my journey, from the village of Klausenberg, proved to the more difficult than I had anticipated due to the reluctance on the part of the coach driver to take me all the way. However, as there was no other transport available, I was forced to travel the last few kilometers on foot before arriving at Castle Dracula. The castle appeared innocuous enough in the warm afternoon sun, and it all seemed normal but for one thing--there were no birds singing. As I crossed the wooden bridge and entered the gateway, it suddenly seemed to become much colder due, no doubt, to the icy waters of the mountain torrent I had just crossed. However, I deemed myself lucky to have secured this post, and did not intend to falter in my purpose."
Jonathan Harker — Horror of Dracula (1958)
"At last I have met Count Dracula. He accepts me as a man who has agreed to work among his books...as I intended. It only remains for me now to await the daylight hours when, with God's help, I will forever end this man's reign of terror."
Jonathan Harker — Horror of Dracula (1958)
"I have become a victim of Dracula and the woman in his power. It may be that I am doomed to be one of them. If that is so, I can only pray that whoever finds my body will possess the knowledge to do what is necessary to release my soul. I have lost a day. Soon it will be dark. While my senses are still my own, I must do what I set out to do. I must find the resting place of Dracula and, there, end his existence forever."
Jonathan Harker — Horror of Dracula (1958)
One of my race crossed the Danube and destroyed the Turkish host. Though sometimes beaten back he came again and again then at the end he came again for he alone could triumph. This was a Dracula indeed.
Dracula (Jesus Franco, 1970)
Oh, you're so cool, Brewster!
Evil Ed Thompson — Fright Night (1985)
[meeting Peter Vincent] Mr. Vincent. I've seen all of your films. And I found them... very amusing.
Jerry Dandridge — Fright Night (1985)
What's the matter, Charley? Afraid I'd never come over without being invited first? [Charley's mother laughs] You're right. You're quite right. Of course, uh, now that I've been made welcome I'll probably drop by quite a bit. In fact, anytime I feel like it.
Jerry Dandridge — Fright Night (1985)
Now we wouldn't want to wake your mother, would we Charley? Then I'd have to kill her too. RIGHT? [tosses Charley across his room, before grabbing him up by his throat] Do you realize how much trouble you've caused me? Spying on me, almost disturbing my sleep this afternoon, telling policemen about me! You deserve to die, boy. Of course, I could give you something I don't have: a choice. Forget about me, Charley. Forget about me, and I'll forget about you. What do you say, Charley? [Charley pulls out a small cross but Jerry crushes Charley's wrist, making him drop it] Fool!
Jerry Dandridge — Fright Night (1985)
Welcome to Fright Night... for real!
Jerry Dandridge — Fright Night (1985)
[last words] Amy!
Jerry Dandridge — Fright Night (1985)
[as a vampire, trying to trick Charley] What's wrong? Don't you want me anymore? [Charley pulls out a crucifix and she hides her face; crying] It's not my fault, Charley. You promised you wouldn't let him get me! You promised!
Amy Peterson — Fright Night (1985)
Let's start with the little one. First come, first staked.
Alan Frog — The Lost Boys (1987)
Holy smoke, it's the attack of Eddie Munster!
Alan Frog — The Lost Boys (1987)
We don't ride with vampires. [Realizes that they're just outside of the Vampires' cave] We do now.
Alan Frog — The Lost Boys (1987)
Holy smoke, Vampire Hotel.
Alan Frog — The Lost Boys (1987)
[entering their cave] Not bad, huh? This was the hottest resort in Santa Carla about 85 years ago. It's too bad that they built it on the San Andreas Fault. In 1906, when the Big One hit San Francisco, the ground opened up and this place took a header right into the crack. So now, it's ours.
David Williams — The Lost Boys (1987)
That's what I love about this place. You ask, and then you get.
David Williams — The Lost Boys (1987)
Initiation's over, Michael. Time to join the club!
David Williams — The Lost Boys (1987)
Now you know what we are. And now you know what you are. You'll never grow old, Michael. And you'll never die. But you must feed.
David Williams — The Lost Boys (1987)
I think I should warn you all, when a vampire buys it, it's never a pretty sight. No two blood suckers go out the same way. Some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode. But all will try and take you with them.
Edgar Frog — The Lost Boys (1987)
[to Alan] How much you think we should charge out of this?
Edgar Frog — The Lost Boys (1987)
Lucy, you're the only woman I ever knew who didn't improve her situation by getting divorced.
Grandpa — The Lost Boys (1987)
Rules! We've got some rules around here. Second shelf is mine. That's where I keep my cocktail peanuts, my Diet Pepsi and my double-thick animal crackers. Nobody touches the second shelf but me. Now, there's another rule around here, and I want you to pay very close attention to it. Don't touch anything. Everything is exactly where I want it.
Grandpa — The Lost Boys (1987)
[as Michael comes home in the morning] Looks like I wasn't the only one who got lucky last night.
Grandpa — The Lost Boys (1987)
What's wrong with this picture? There's no TV! Have you seen a TV, Mike? I haven't seen a TV. Do you know what it means when there's no TV? No MTV.
Sam Emerson — The Lost Boys (1987)
You need sunglasses to talk on the phone? Are you freebasing, Michael? Inquiring minds want to know.
Sam Emerson — The Lost Boys (1987)
Look at your reflection in the mirror. You're a creature of the night, Michael. Just like out of a comic book. You're a vampire, Michael! My own brother, a damn blood-sucking vampire! You wait 'til Mom finds out, buddy!
Sam Emerson — The Lost Boys (1987)
Don't kill me, Mike. I'm basically a good kid, so just don't kill me.
Sam Emerson — The Lost Boys (1987)
It's that girl from the boardwalk. Is she one of them?... [Star floats up] She's one of them! And don't tell me it doesn't make her a bad person, Mike!
Sam Emerson — The Lost Boys (1987)
[to Star] Don't kill anybody until we get back to you!
Sam Emerson — The Lost Boys (1987)
(in a letter to Jonathan Harker) My friend. Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. At the Borgo Pass, my carriage will await you and bring you to me. I trust your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. Your friend, D.
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Welcome to my home. Enter freely of your own will, and leave some of the happiness you bring.
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Your firm writes most highly of your talents. They say you are a man of good... taste. (chuckles)
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds... true love?
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(noticing the crucifix Jonathan Harker wears) Do not put your faith in such trinkets of deceit! We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways. And, to you, there shall be many strange things...
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(as wolves howl) Ahh, listen to them! (laughs) The children of the night. What sweet music they make!
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(Mina sees him violating Lucy in a wolf-like form) No! Do not see me!
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
I have crossed oceans of time to find you.
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(helping Mina befriend a wolf) He likes you. There is much to be learned from beasts.
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are safe with me.
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(about to complete Lucy's transformation into a vampire) Your impotent men with their foolish spells cannot protect you from my power. I condemn you to living death. To eternal hunger for living blood!
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
There is no life in this body. I am nothing, lifeless, soulless, hated and feared. I am dead to all the world - hear me! I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula.
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Where is my God? He has forsaken me. It is finished. Give me peace.
Count Dracula — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Left Budapest early this morning. The impression I had was that we were leaving the west and entering the east. The district I am to enter is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian Mountains, one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.
Jonathan Harker — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. The Count, the way he looked at Mina's picture, fills me with dread - as if I have a part to play in a story that is not known to me.
Jonathan Harker — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
I did as Dracula instructed. I wrote three letters - to the firm, to my family, and to my beloved Mina. I said nothing of my fears, as he will read them, no doubt. I know now that I am a prisoner.
Jonathan Harker — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
The letters I have written have undoubtedly sealed my doom. The Count's gypsies, fearless warriors who are loyal to the death to whatever nobleman they serve - day and night they toil, filling boxes with decrepit earth from the bowels of the castle. They are to be delivered to his newly acquired Carfax Abbey in London. Why do they fill these boxes with earth?
Jonathan Harker — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Dawn. These may be the last words I write in this journal. Dracula has left me with these women, these devils of the pit. They drain my blood to keep me weak, barely alive so I cannot escape. I will try one last time today to escape to the water. There must be passageway to the river, and then away from this cursed land where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet.
Jonathan Harker — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(to Van Helsing, while under the influence of Dracula's brides) You've been so good to me, Professor. I know that Lucy harbored secret desires for you. She told me. I too know what men desire. (kisses him) Will you cut off my head and drive a stake through my heart as you did poor Lucy, you murdering bastard?
Mina Murray — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(as light illiminates the chapel) There, in the presence of God, I understood at last how my love could release us all from the powers of darkness. Our love is stronger than death.
Mina Murray — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
My dear Jonathan has been gone almost a week and, although I was disappointed we could not marry before his departure, I am happy that he got sent on this important assignment. I am longing to hear all the news. It must be so nice to see strange countries. I wonder if we, I mean Jonathan and I, shall ever see them together...
Mina Murray — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
A land beyond a great vast forest, surrounded by majestic mountains and lush vineyards and flowers of such frailty and beauty as to be found no where else.
Mina Murray — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
The princess... She's a river, filled with tears of sadness and...heartbreak.
Mina Murray — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
I love you! Oh, God forgive me, I do!
Mina Murray — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Can a man and a woman really do...that?
Mina Murray — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(VO) (watching Lucy flirt with many suitors at the party) Lucy is a pure and virtuous girl. But, I admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes. Jonathan says it is a defect of the aristocracy that they say what they please. The truth is that I admire Lucy, and I'm not surprised that men flock around her. I wish I were as pretty and as adored as she.
Mina Murray — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Contrary to some beliefs, the vampire, like any other night creature, can move about by day - though it is not his natural time, and his powers are weak.
Abraham Van Helsing — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(giving a medical lecture) The vampire bat must consume 10 times its own weight in fresh blood each day, or its own blood cells will die. Cute little vermin, ja? Blood, and the diseases of the blood such as syphilis, will concern us here. The very name "venereal diseases", the "diseases of Venus", imputes to them divine origin. They are involved in that sex problem about which the ethics and ideals of Christian civilization are concerned. In fact, civilization and syphilization have advanced together.
Abraham Van Helsing — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Gentlemen, we're not fighting some disease here. Those marks on your dear Miss Lucy's neck were made by something unspeakable out there - dead, but not dead. It stalks us for some dread purpose I do not yet comprehend. To live, it feeds on Lucy's precious blood. It is a beast, a monster!
Abraham Van Helsing — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(reading from a book about vampire history) "Here occurs the shocking and frightening history of the wild, berserk Prince Dracula, how he impaled people and roasted them, boiled their heads in a kettle, how he skinned them alive and hacked them to pieces and then... drank their blood." Ja, Dracul... "The blood is the life"...
Abraham Van Helsing — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(about Lucy) She lives beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. She is "Vampyr", "Nosferatu". These creatures do not die like the bee after the first sting, but instead grow strong and become immortal once infected by another Nosferatu. So, my friends, we fight not one beast, but legions that go on age after age after age, feeding on the blood of the living.
Abraham Van Helsing — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Vampires do exist. And this one we fight, this one we face, has the strength of twenty or more people, and you can testify for that, Mr. Harker. But he can also control the meaner things of life: the bat, the rodent, the wolf. He can appear as mist, as vapour, as fog, and vanish at will. Now all these things Dracula can do, but he is not free. He must rest in the sacred earth of his homeland to gain his evil power. It is here that we must find him and destroy him utterly.
Abraham Van Helsing — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
We've all become God's madmen. All of us.
Abraham Van Helsing — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(to Mina) Is your ambitious John Harker forcing you to learn that ridiculous machine? When he could be forcing you to perform unspeakable acts of desperate passion on the parlour floor!
Lucy Westenra — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Mina, you've got to go to him. You've got to love him, and marry him right then and there. And I want you to take this, my sister. (gives Mina her ring) It's my wedding gift to you. Don't worry about spoiled little Lucy. I'll be all right. Tell Jonathan oceans of love.
Lucy Westenra — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(to her fiancé Arthur Holmwood, after becoming a vampire) Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you, my darling. Kiss me and caress me, my darling husband, please...
Lucy Westenra — Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
I know nothing of God... or the Devil. I have never seen a vision, nor learned a secret, that would damn or save my soul. And as far as I know, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world.
Armand — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
The world changes, we do not; therein lies the irony that finally kills us.
Armand — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Which one of you did it?! One of you did it! Which one of you made me the way I am?!
Claudia — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
And here it is. And I hate you both!
Claudia — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you, Louis. Louis, my love, I was mortal until you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him.
Claudia — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
I'll put you in your coffin!
Claudia — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
You have found your new companion, Louis! You will make me mine!
Claudia — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!
Claudia — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Snatching me from my mother's hands, like two monsters in a fairytale. And now you weep! I haven't tears enough for what you've done to me.
Claudia — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you, Louis. Louis, my love. I was mortal till you... gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother and my father. And so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. He will never let us go.
Claudia — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Have you said your goodbyes to the light?
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Your body's dying. Pay no attention. It happens to us all.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Evildoers are easier... and they taste better.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[After stuffing a prostitute into a coffin and shutting it] It's your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
All I need to find you, Louis, is to follow the corpses of rats.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we, for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him... as ourselves.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
I assume I need no introduction.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Oh, Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. [To Daniel Molloy] Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries!
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Appears in doorway of Louis comforting Claudia, found in house with the body of her plague victim mother, laughing] My philosopher, my martyr. "Never take a human life". Oh, yes. This calls for a celebration. [Picks up the body of Claudia's mother and dances with it energetically across room singing in Italian and Louis runs out out door] There's still life in the old lady yet! [Drops body of Claudia's mother on floor, walks out door calling to Louis] Come back! You are what you are! Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Walking through sewers] All I need to find you, Louis, is follow the corpses of rats. Pain is terrible for you. You feel it like no other creature, because you're a vampire. You don't want it to go on. [Louis agrees] Then do what it is in your nature to do... and you will feel as you felt with that child in your arms. Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately... and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are. None so like Him... as ourselves. I have a gift for you... [Louis asks where] You need... company... more congenial than mine. Remember how you wanted her? The taste of her? Don't worry. Your conscience is clear.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Walks in when Claudia has finished feeding off her tailoress and drops her on the ground] Claudia. Claudia! Now... who will we get to finish your dress?! You need to practice daily! [Slaps Claudia's wrist] Never feed in our home!
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Playing piano after returning from swamp from being left after killed] Listen, Louis... there's life... in these old hands still. Not quite furioso. Moderato... cantabile, perhaps. [Claudia inquires how] Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then, on a diet of the blood of snakes... toads... and all the putrid life... of the Mississippi... slowly... Lestat became something... like himself again. You've been... a very... very... naughty little girl.
Lestat de Lioncourt — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for 200 years. Please, how shall I put you at ease? Shall we begin like David Copperfield? 'I am born... I grew up.' Or shall we begin when I was born to darkness, as I call it? That's really where we should start, don't you think?... 1791 was the year it happened. I was 24. Younger than you are now. But times were different then. I was a man at that age. The master of a large plantation, just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth. She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would've been happy to join them. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed to be released from it. I wanted to lose it all: my wealth, my estate, my sanity....Most of all, I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that followed. But it was a vampire that accepted.
Louis de Pointe du Lac — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.
Louis de Pointe du Lac — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life.
Louis de Pointe du Lac — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Walks out front door of plantation master house to meet lynching intentioned mob of torch wielding slaves while carrying lifeless body of house servant Yvette] Hear me now! This place is cursed! Damned! And, yes, your master is the devil! Get out while you can! You're all free! Do you hear me?! [Hands body of Yvette to slaves] Run! Run! [Grabs a torch, swipes it at slaves to scare them off only to have them follow him to door and he proceeds set fire to the plantation master house]
Louis de Pointe du Lac — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Referring to feeding on Claudia] Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And, as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed. When I heard her heart in that rhythm, I knew only what peace could be.
Louis de Pointe du Lac — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful, magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes? "Drink," you ask me. Do you have any idea of the thing you will become?
Louis de Pointe du Lac — Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Whatever happened to Lestat, I do not know. I go on, night after night. I feed on those who cross my path. But all my passion went with her golden hair. I'm a spirit of preternatural flesh. Detached. Unchangeable. Empty.
Louis de Pointe du Lac — Interview with the Vampire (1994)