Dracula (1931) quotes

View Quote Renfield: Oh, Dr. Seward! Send me away from this place! Send me far away!
Abraham Van Helsing: Why are you so anxious to get away?
Renfield: My cries at night, they might disturb miss Mina.
Abraham Van Helsing: Yes?
Renfield: They might give her bad dreams, professor Van Helsing. Bad dreams.
[A wolf starts howling. Meanwhile, at Carfax Abbey, Count Dracula leaves his coffin.]
[Back at Dr. Seward's office]
Abraham Van Helsing: That sounded like a wolf.
Dr. Jack Seward: Yes, it did. But I hardly think there are wolves so near London.
Martin: He thinks they're wolves. Me, I've heard them howl at night before. He thinks they're talking to him! He howls and howls back at them. He's crazy!
Abraham Van Helsing: I might have known. I might have known.

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Young Girl Passenger: [reading from a Transylvanian tourist brochure] "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age."
Lucy Weston: Lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter as though the dead were there... Quaff a cup to the dead already, hooray for the next to die!
Martin: The doctor's pet looney is loose again.
Sailor: Why, he's mad! Look at his eyes! Why, the man's gone crazy.
Martin: On your way, old fly-eater!
Martin: Strike me down dead, doctor! He's got me going!

View Quote A moment ago, I stumbled on a most amazing phenomenon...something so incredible, I mistrust my own judgement.

View Quote A vampire's power last from sunset to sunrise. During the hours of the day it must rest in the earth in which it was buried.

View Quote And after you deliver the message, you will remember nothing, I now say...Obey.

View Quote For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

View Quote I didn't lead them here, Master! I didn't know, I swear!

View Quote I'm loyal to you Master, I 'm your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me, torture me, but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience! All that blood on my hands!

View Quote I'm warning you doctor Seward! If you don't send me away you must answer for what will happen to miss Mina.

View Quote Keep your filthy hands to yourself!

View Quote Master, the sun is gone!

View Quote Master, we're here. You can't hear what I'm saying but we're here. We're safe.

View Quote No, no, Master! I wasn't going to say anything! I told them nothing! I'm loyal to you, Master!

View Quote Seward, I want you to have Renfield closely watched by day and night. Especially by night.

View Quote The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.