The Most Dangerous Game Quotes

  • 'Doc' - Passenger on Yacht: I was thinking of the inconsistency of civilization. The beast of the jungle, killing just for his existence, is called savage. The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized... It's a bit contradictory, isn't it?

    Bob: Now just a minute... What makes you think it isn't just as much sport for the animal, as it is for the man? Now take that fellow right there, for instance. There never was a time when he couldn't have gotten away, but he didn't want to. He got interested in hunting me. He didn't hate me for stalking him, anymore than I hated him for trying to charge me. As a matter of fact, we admired each other.

    'Doc' - Passenger on Yacht: Perhaps, but would you change places with the tiger?

    Bob: Well... not now.

  • Eve: Oh Martin, turn in early, please.

    Martin: Don't worry. The Count will take care of me.

    Zaroff: Indeed I shall.

  • [first lines]

    Captain: The channel's here on the chart, all right, and so are the marking lights.

    First Mate on Yacht: Then what's wrong with them?

    Captain: Those lights don't seem to be in just the right place. They're both a bit out of position according to this.

    First Mate on Yacht: Two light buoys means a safe channel between the world over!

    Captain: "Safe between the world over" doesn't go in these waters.

  • Bob: This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily, I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

  • Zaroff: We'll have capital sport together, I hope.

  • Zaroff: God made some men kings, some beggars. Me, he made a hunter. My hand was made for the trigger.

  • Zaroff: Here on my island, I hunt the most dangerous game.

  • Zaroff: Kill! Then love. When you have known that, you will have known ecstasy!

  • Bob: Those animals I hunted, now I know how they felt.

  • Zaroff: [Bob Rainsford enters, unseen by Zaroff at the piano who stops playing at the sound of Bob bolting the door] My dear Rainsford, I congratulate you. You have beaten me!

    Bob: Not yet.