Matthew Hopkins quotes

View Quote [voiceover] 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.

View Quote from Edgar Allan Poe's The Conqueror Worm; included in the U.S. release

View Quote Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

View Quote I will find out the truth for you, have no fear.

View Quote [Hopkins and his men throw three securely-bound people into the moat as a witchcraft test] They swim... the mark of Satan is upon them. They must hang.

View Quote [a tied-up woman Hopkins has thrown into the moat to test for witchcraft drowns] She was innocent.

View Quote [voiceover] 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.

View Quote from Edgar Allan Poe's The Conqueror Worm; included in the U.S. release