Quotes

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Renfield: Well, I'm sorry, but there's a carriage meeting me at Borgo Pass at midnight. Innkeeper: Borgo Pass? Renfield: Yes. Innkeeper: Whose carriage? Renfield: Count Dracula's. Innkeeper: Count Dracula's? Renfield: Yes. Innkeeper: [fearfully] Castle Dracula? Renfield: Yes, that's where I'm going. Innkeeper: To the castle? Renfield: Yes. Innkeeper: [tremulously] Nooo. You mustn't go there. We people of the mountains believe at the Castle there are vampires. Dracula and his wives - they take the form of wolves and bats. They leave their coffins at night and they feed on the blood of the living. Renfield: But that's all superstition. Why I, I can't understand why... Innkeeper: Come, we must go indoors. Renfield: It's a matter of business with me. I've got to go. Really. Well, goodnight. Innkeeper's wife: Wait. Please. If you must go, wear this for your mother's sake. It will protect you.

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Count Dracula: I am Dracula. Renfield: Oh. It's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage, and... well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place. Count Dracula: I bid you welcome. Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. Count Dracula: The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield. Renfield: Why, er... yes.

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Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it. Renfield: Aren't you drinking? Count Dracula: I never drink...wine.

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Renfield: [in a tormented tone] No, Martin. Martin don't! Don't throw my spider away from me! [Martin disposes of the spider out the window] Oh Martin, no! Martin: Ain't ya ashamed now! Ain't ya? Spiders now, is it? Flies ain't good enough. Renfield: Flies! Flies! Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies? Martin: You do, you loony! Renfield: Not when I can get nice fat spiders. Martin: All right. Have it your own way.

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Van Helsing: Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead...Yes, Nosferatu, the undead, the vampire. The vampire attacks the throat. It leaves two little wounds, white with red centers. Dr. Seward, your patient Renfield whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things in order to sustain his own life. Dr. Seward: Well, Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science does not admit of such a creature. The vampire is a pure myth, superstition. Van Helsing: I may be able to bring you proof, that the superstition of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.

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Maid: Oh, Mr. Harker! Oh, Mr. Harker, it's horrible! Oh, it's horrible! Dr. Seward! Miss Mina... Out there, dead! Dr. Jack Seward: Out where? Maid: Out there!

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Van Helsing: You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul. Renfield: God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.

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Count Dracula: To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious! Mina: Why, Count Dracula! Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

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Renfield: Oh, Dr. Seward! Send me away from this place! Send me far away! Van Helsing: Why are you so anxious to get away? Renfield: My cries at night, they might disturb miss Mina. Van Helsing: Yes? Renfield: They might give her bad dreams, Professor Van Helsing. Bad dreams! 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! Van Helsing: I might have known. I might have known.

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Van Helsing: What have you to do with Dracula? Renfield: Dracula? I've never even heard the name before.

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Renfield: Isn't this a strange conversation, for men who aren't crazy? Dr. Jack Seward: Renfield! You're compelling me to put you in a straitjacket! Van Helsing: You forget, doctor, that madmen have great strength. Dracula has great strength. Eh, Renfield? Renfield: Words, words, words!

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Renfield: He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them. Van Helsing: Doing them? Renfield: By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red, like his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red-blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!" Van Helsing: What did he want you to do? Renfield: That which has already been done! [giggles sinisterly]

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Maid: He's crazy! Martin: They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have my doubts about you. Maid: Yes.

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Count Dracula: Van Helsing. Count Dracula: Now that you have learned what you have learned, it would be well for you to return to your own country. Van Helsing: I prefer to remain and protect those whom you would destroy. Count Dracula: You are too late. My blood now flows through her veins. She will live through the centuries to come, as I have lived. Van Helsing: Should you escape us, Dracula. We know how to save Miss Mina's soul if not her life. Count Dracula: If she dies by day. But I shall see that she dies by night. Van Helsing: And I will have Carfax Abbey torn down, stone by stone, excavated a mile around. I will find your earth-box and drive that stake through your heart. Count Dracula: Come here. Count Dracula: Come here. Count Dracula: Your will is strong, Van Helsing. Count Dracula: More wolfbane? Van Helsing: More effective than wolfbane, Count. Count Dracula: Indeed?