Dracula Quotes

[first lines]

Young Girl Passenger: [reading from a Transylvanian tourist brochure] "Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age."

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.

[Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling]

Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

[Dracula goes up the steps and waits for Renfield, who, without difficulty, cuts open a hole in a huge spider's web using his walking stick]

Count Dracula: The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.

Renfield: Why, er... yes.

Renfield: I'm loyal to you, Master, I am 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!

[Dracula picks up Renfield with his bony hands and in a few seconds, Renfield dies]

Innkeeper: Castle Dracula?

Renfield: Yes. That's where I'm going.

Innkeeper: To the castle?

Renfield: Yes.

Innkeeper: No. You musn't go there. We people of the mountains believe in 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.

Count Dracula: Van Helsing.

[Van Helsing turns to face Count Dracula]

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.

[Dracula raises his hand to hypnotise Van Helsing]

Count Dracula: Come here.

[Van Helsing takes three hypnotised steps towards Dracula but soon steps back, resisting Dracula's hypnotic power over him]

Count Dracula: Your will is strong, Van Helsing.

[Van Helsing reaches out for his crucifix as Dracula looms toward him]

Count Dracula: More wolfbane?

Van Helsing: More effective than wolfbane, Count.

Count Dracula: Indeed.

[Dracula lunges towards Van Helsing. Van Helsing holds up the crucifix. Dracula snarls and turns away. Van Helsing, in triumph, puts away the crucifix]

Martin: Aren't you ashamed now? Aren't you? 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.

Van Helsing: Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead.

Scholar: Nosferatu

Van Helsing: Yes, Nosferatu.

Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.

Renfield: Aren't you drinking?

Count Dracula: I never drink... wine.

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.

Count Dracula: To die, to be *really* dead, that must be glorious!

Mina Seward: Why, Count Dracula!

Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Maid: He's crazy!

Martin: They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you.

Maid: Yes.

Renfield, Van Helsing: Mr. Harker, I have devoted my lifetime to the study of many strange things. Little-known facts which the world is, perhaps, better off for not knowing.

John Harker: I know. But Professor, all I want is to get Mina away from all of this.

Van Helsing: That will do no good. Our only chance of saving Miss Mina's life is to find the hiding place of Dracula's living corpse and to drive a stake through its heart.

Renfield: Isn't this a strange conversation for men who aren't crazy?

Count Dracula: [tries to hypnotize Van Helsing and fails] Your will is strong, Van Helsing.

[advances toward Van Helsing; Van Helsing reaches into one of his pockets]

Count Dracula: More wolfbane?

Van Helsing: More effective than wolfbane, Count.

Count Dracula: Indeed.

[Van Helsing pulls a crucifix from his pocket; Dracula hisses and flees]

Lucy Weston: [doing an impression of Dracula] It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own castle in Transylvania.

[chuckles]

Mina Seward: Oh, Lucy, you're so romantic!

Lucy Weston: Laugh all you like. I think he's fascinating.

Mina Seward: Oh, I suppose he's all right. But give me someone a little more normal.

Lucy Weston: Like John?

Mina Seward: Yes, dear, like John.

Lucy Weston: [dreamily] Castle... Dracula... Transylvania!

Mina Seward: Well, Countess! I'll leave you to your count and his ruined abbey!

[both giggle]

Mina Seward: Good night, Lucy.

Lucy Weston: Good night, dear.

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]

Van Helsing: What have you to do with Dracula?

Renfield: DRACULA?... I never even heard the name before

Doctor Seward: But, 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.

Van Helsing: [Holding a box] A moment ago, I stumbled upon a most amazing phenomena. Something so incredible, I mistrust my own judgement. Look.

[Van Helsing opens the box to reveal a mirror. Dracula smacks it out of his hand]

Count Dracula: Doctor Seward. My humble apology. I dislike mirrors.

Doctor Seward: Phew! What on earth caused that?

John Harker: Did you see the look on his face? Like a wild animal!

Doctor Seward: Wild animal. Like a madman.

Van Helsing: [examining Mina's neck] How long have you had those little marks?

John Harker: Marks? Mina, why didn't you let us know?

Van Helsing: Please! Do not excite her. When, Miss Mina?

Mina Seward: Since the morning after the dream.

John Harker: What could have caused them, Professor?

Maid: [entering room to announce Dracula's arrival] Count Dracula!