Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Note: ranked #83 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Renfield
Dwight Frye · 20 quotes
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing
Edward Van Sloan · 14 quotes
Count Dracula
Bela Lugosi · 8 quotes
Martin
Charles K. Gerrard · 4 quotes
Dr. Jack Seward
Herbert Bunston · 3 quotes
Mina Harker
Helen Chandler · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Renfield & Prof. Abraham Van Helsing (5), Count Dracula & Renfield (3), Renfield & Martin (2)
Dracula quotes
Page 1 of 3Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead.
Scholar
Nosferatu.
Yes, Nosferatu.
What have you to do with Dracula?
Dracula? I've never even heard the name before.
You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.
God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.
I am Dracula.
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.
I bid you welcome.
[Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling.]
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 huge spider's web using his walking stick.]
The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Why, er... yes.
This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
Aren't you drinking?
I never drink...wine.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!
Why, Count Dracula!
There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Van Helsing.
[Van Helsing turns to face Dracula]
Now that you have learned what you have learned, it would be well for you to return to your own country.
I prefer to remain and protect those whom you would destroy.
You are too late. My blood now flows through her veins. She will live through the centuries to come, as I have lived.
Should you escape us, Dracula. We know how to save Miss Mina's soul if not her life.
If she dies by day. But I shall see that she dies by night.
And I will find Carfax Abbey torn down, stone by stone, excavated a mile around. I will find your earth-box and drive that stake through your heart.
Come here.
[Van Helsing takes three hypnotized steps towards Dracula but soon steps back, resisting Dracula's power over him.]
Your will is strong, Van Helsing.
[Van Helsing reaches out for his crucifix as Dracula looms toward him.]
More wolfbane?
More effective than wolfbane, Count.
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.]
Maid He's crazy!
They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have my doubts about you.
Maid Yes.
Maid Oh, Mr. Harker! Oh, Mr. Harker, it's horrible! Oh, it's horrible! Dr. Seward! Miss Mina... Out there, dead!
Out where?
Maid Out there!
Ain't you ashamed now? Ain't you? Spiders now, is it? Flies ain't good enough!
Flies? Flies?! Poor puny things! Who wants to eat flies?!
You do, ya loony!
Not when I can get nice fat spiders!
All right, have it your own way.
[doing an impression of Dracula]
"It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own castle in Transylvania." [chuckles] Oh, Lucy, you're so romantic!
Lucy Weston Laugh all you like. I think he's fascinating.
Oh, I suppose he's all right. But give me someone a little more normal.
Lucy Weston Like John?
Yes, dear, like John.
Lucy Weston [dreamily]
Castle... Dracula...Transylvania!
Well, Countess! I'll leave you to your count and his ruined abbey!
Lucy Weston Good night, dear.
He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.
Doing them?
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!"
What did he want you to do?
That which has already been done! [giggles sinisterly]
I hope I've brought enough labels for your luggage.
I'm taking with me only three, uh... boxes...
Oh, very well...
Isn't this a strange conversation, for men who aren't crazy?
Renfield! You're compelling me to put you in a straitjacket!
You forget, doctor, that madmen have great strength. Dracula has great strength. Eh, Renfield?
Words, words, words!