Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1996) quotes

85 total quotes

View Quote [first lines; during "The Bells of Notre Dame"]
Clopin: Listen. They're beautiful, no? So many colors of sound, so many changing moods. Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves.
Puppet: They don't?
Clopin: No, silly boy. Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?
Puppet: Who?
Clopin: What is he?
Puppet: What?
Clopin: How did he come to be there?
Puppet: How?
Clopin: [hits the puppet with a stick] Hush!
Puppet: Ow.
Clopin: [to children] Clopin will tell you a tale. A tale of a man...and a monster.

View Quote [Frollo has barred a miller and his family inside their home]
Frollo: Burn it.
Phoebus: [shocked and angrily] What?
Frollo: Until it smolders. [holds torch] These people are traitors and must be made examples of.
Phoebus: [takes torch] With all due respect sir, I was not trained to murder the innocent.
Frollo: But you were trained to follow orders.
[Phoebus douses a flaming torch in a barrel of water]
Frollo: [angrily] Insolent coward.

View Quote [last line, after closing credits end]
Hugo: Good night, everybody! Whoo-hoo-hoo!

View Quote [Paris is in flames while Frollo and the guards are searching for Esmeralda. In the bell tower, Victor and Laverne are upset, looking out.]
Laverne: Oh, it doesn't look good.
Victor: It's hopeless. Absolutely hopeless.
Hugo: [playing cards with a pigeon, not paying attention] You're telling me! I'm losing to a bird!

View Quote [Quasimodo had just driven Phoebus out of the Cathedral.]
Hugo: Hey-hey! There he is! [the gargoyles applaud and cheer Quasimodo]
Victor: É bellissimo! You ejected that tin-plated buffoon with great panache!
Hugo: The nerve of him! Snoopin' around here tryin' to steal your girl.
Quasimodo: My girl?
Laverne: Esmeralda. Dark hair, works with a goat. Remember?
Hugo: Boy, I do. Way to go, lover boy!
Quasimodo: [chuckles] "Lover boy"? Oh, no, no.
Laverne: Oh, don't be so modest.
Quasimodo: Look, I appreciate what you're all trying to do. But let's not fool ourselves. "Ugliest face in all Paris," remember? I don't think I'm her type.

View Quote [Referring to Esmeralda, who's dancing at the festival.]
Frollo: Look at that disgusting display.
Phoebus: [smitten by Esmeralda's beauty] Yes, sir!

View Quote (to Quasimodo, telling him that though she has sanctuary in Notre Dame, she doesn't have freedom, which is what she desires.) Gypsies don't do well inside stone walls.

View Quote (when Frollo said to her "Silence!") Justice!

View Quote I am a public official; I must go. But I don't enjoy a moment! Thieves and cutpurses, the dregs of humankind, all mixed together in a shallow, drunken stupor.

View Quote [Archdeacon: STOP!] [Clopin: Cried the Archdeacon.] This is an unholy demon. I'm sending it back to Hell, where it belongs.

View Quote [Archdeacon: Frollo, have you gone mad?! I will not tolerate this assault on the House of God!] Silence, you old fool! [throws the Archdeacon down the stairs] The Hunchback and I have unfinished business to attend to. And this time, you will not interfere.

View Quote [after kicking Quasimodo's mother, causing her to hit her head, killing her instantly] A baby? [gasps] A monster!

View Quote [as Esmeralda pours wine on his wound] Aaaaagh! Yes! Mmmm. Feels like a 1470 burgundy. Not a good year.

View Quote [as he is being humiliated by the crowd during the festival] Master! Master, please! Help me!

View Quote [confronting Frollo for his lies] No! You listen. All my life, you've told me the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!