Henry Frankenstein quotes from Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

View Quote It's going to be a terrific storm!

View Quote She's alive! Alive!

View Quote Henry: Forget? If only I could forget but it's never out of my mind. I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of Life. Perhaps death is sacred and I profaned it. For what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of - the formula for life. Think of the power to create a man - and I did it. I did it! I created a man, and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race. I might even have found the secret of eternal life.
Elizabeth: Henry, don't say those things. Don't think them! It's blasphemous and wicked. We are not meant to know those things.
Henry: It may be that I'm intended to know the secret of life. It may be part of the Divine Plan.
Elizabeth: No, no! It's the Devil that prompts you. It's death, not life, that is in it all and at the end of it all...Listen Henry, while you've been lying here, tossing in your delirium, I couldn't sleep. And when you rave of your insane desire to create living men from the dust of the dead, a strange apparition has seemed to appear in the room. It comes, a figure like Death, and each time it comes more clearly - nearer. It seems to be reaching out for you, as if it would take you away from me. There it is. Look! There!
Henry: I see nothing, Elizabeth. Where? There's nothing there.
Elizabeth: There! There! It's coming for you! Nearer! Henry! Henry! Henry! Henry! Henry!

View Quote Pretorius: We must work together.
Henry: Never! This is outrageous. I'm through with it. I'll have no more of this hell-spawn! As soon as I'm well, I'm to be married and I'm going away.
Pretorius: I must beg you to reconsider. You know, do you not, that it is you, really, who are responsible for all those murders? There are penalties to pay for killing people. And with your creature still at large in the countryside...
Henry: Are you threatening me?
Pretorius: I had ventured a hope that you and I together, no longer as master and pupil but as fellow scientists, might probe the mysteries of life and death.
Henry: Never! No further!
Pretorius: And reach a goal undreamed of by scientists...You and I have gone too far to stop, nor can it be stopped so easily. I also continue with my experiments. That is why I am here tonight. You must see my creation!
Henry: Have you also succeeded, bringing life to the dead?
Pretorius: If you, Herr Baron, will do me the honor of visiting my humble abode, I think you will be interested in what I have to show you. After twenty years of secret scientific research and countless failures, I also have created life as we say: 'In God's own image.'
Henry: I must know. When can I see it?
Pretorius: I thought you might change your mind. Why not tonight?

View Quote Pretorius: My experiments did not turn out quite like yours Henry. But science, like love, has her little surprises - as you shall see.
Henry: Good heavens, Doctor. what are these?
Pretorius: There is a pleasing variety about my exhibits. My first experiment was so lovely that we made her a Queen. Charming, don't you think? Then of course, we had to have a King. Now, he's so madly in love with her that we have to segregate them.... now, now. I have to be careful with the king. now behave. My next production looked so disapprovingly at the other two that they made him an Archbishop... he seems to be asleep. I must wake him up. the next one is the very Devil - very bizarre, this little chap. There's a certain resemblance to me, don't you think? Or do I flatter myself? I took a great deal of pains with him. Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good. Oh! there's the king out again. even royal amours are a nuisance. poor archbishop. he has his hands full. there. that will keep you quiet. My little Ballerina is charming but such a bore! She won't dance to anything but Mendelsohnn's Spring Song and it gets so monotonous. My next is very conventional, I'm afraid. But you can never tell how these things will turn out. It was an experiment with seaweed. Normal size has been my difficulty. You did achieve size. I need to work that out with you.
Henry: But this isn't science! It's more like black magic.
Pretorius: You think I'm mad. Perhaps I am. But listen Henry Frankenstein. While you were digging in your graves, piecing together dead tissues, I, my dear pupil, went for my material to the source of life. I grew my creatures like cultures; grew them, as Nature does - from seed. But still, you did achieve results that I have missed. Now think what a world-astounding collaboration we should be, you and I - together.
Henry: No! No, no, no.

View Quote Pretorius: Leave the charnel house and follow the lead of Nature - or of God if you like your Bible stories. Male and Female created He them. Be fruitful and multiply. Create a race, a man-made race upon the face of the earth. Why not?
Henry: I daren't. I daren't even think of such a thing.
Pretorius: Our mad dream is only half realized. Alone, you have created a man. Now together, we will create his mate.
Henry: You mean...?
Pretorius: Yes. A woman. That should be really interesting.

View Quote Pretorius: All the necessary preparations are made. My part in the experiment is complete. I have created by my method a perfect human brain, already living but dormant. Everything is now ready for you and me to begin our supreme collaboration.
Henry: No, no. Don't tell me of it. I don't want to hear. I've changed my mind. I won't do it!
Pretorius: I expected this. [opens the door, revealing The Monster]
Henry: No, not that.
Pretorius: Oh he's quite harmless, except when crossed.
Monster: Frank - en - stein.
Pretorius: Yes, there have been developments since he came to me.
Monster: Sit down.
Henry: What do you want?
Monster: You know.
Henry: This is your work?
Pretorius: Yes.
Henry: I'll have no hand in such a monstrous thing.
Monster: Yes, must.
Henry: Get him out! I won't even discuss it until he's gone.
Pretorius: [To Monster] Go now. [The Monster growls] Go!
Monster: Must do it!
Henry: Never! Nothing can make me go on with it.

View Quote Pretorious: I charge you as you value your mistress' life to do nothing and say nothing of this episode. I assure you that the Baronness will be safely returned if you will leave everything to me. Nothing, that is, except what he demands.
Henry: I admit I'm beaten. But if you can bring her back, I'll do anything that you want.

View Quote Pretorius: It is interesting to think, Henry, that once upon a time, we should have been burnt at the stake as wizards for this experiment.
Henry: Doctor, I think the heart is beating! Look, it's beating, but the rhythm of the beat is uneven.
Pretorius: Increase the saline solution. Is there any life yet?
Henry: No. Not life itself yet...This action only responds when the current is applied.
Pretorius: You must be patient. The human heart is more complex than any other part of the body. Look, the beat is increasing.
Henry: Yes! ...It stopped.
Pretorius: Shall I increase the current?
Henry: This heart is useless. I must have another, and it must be sound and young.

View Quote Karl: It was a very fresh one.
Henry: Where did you get it?
Karl: I gave the gendarme fifty crowns.
Henry: What gendarme?
Karl: It was a ...police case.
Pretorius: Yes, very sad. Although we can't bother about that now.

View Quote The Monster: Work!
Henry: Where's Elizabeth? Have you brought her?
The Monster: She wait. I wait.
Henry: I'm exhausted. I must get sleep.
The Monster: Work. Finish. Then sleep.
Henry: I can't work like this. He must go away. Send him away.
Pretorius: I'll settle him for a little while.

View Quote Henry: [to The Monster] Look out! The lever!
Pretorius: Get away from that lever. You'll blow us all to atoms.
...
Elizabeth: Henry! Open the door! Henry!
Henry: Get back! Get back!
Elizabeth: I won't unless you come!
Henry: [Henry opens the door and hugs Elizabeth] I can't leave them, I can't.
Monster: Yes, go! You live! Go! [To Pretorius] You stay! We belong dead!