Dracula (1979) · 10 quotes
Most-quoted character in Dracula (1979): in 8 of its 10 quotes
Most scenes with: Lucy Seward (4)
Now it is you, my best beloved one. You will be flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. You shall cross land or sea to do my bidding. I need your blood. I need...
Count Dracula You fools! Do you think with your crosses and your wafers you can destroy me? Me! You do not know how many men have come against me. I am the king of my kind! You have accomplished nothing, Van Helsing. Time is on my side. In a century, when you are dust, I shall wake and call Lucy, my queen from her grave.
Count, some wine? You haven't...
Count Dracula No thank you, Doctor. I never drink wine.
Before you arrived, we were looking at the ship's log.
Count Dracula It wasn't lost at sea?
No. The very last entry was a strange word, a word that Mina thought meant "undead".
Count Dracula Undead?
Mina Van Helsing Yes. "Nosferatu".
Count Dracula Ah, it means "not dead".
Then you were right.
Count Dracula No, with your permission and all due respect to Miss Van Helsing. Yes, I'm quite finished, thank you. There is a distinction, the words "not dead" carry the simple meaning.
Mina Van Helsing Dead... undead... I don't care! They all frighten me!
Oh, I love to be frightened!
Count Dracula Do you?
Count Dracula Jonathan Harker tells me you speak some Romanian.
Well, hardly, I know...
Count Dracula Ar fi frumos să te văd zâmbet.
Count Dracula There, you do understand.
Count Dracula I said it would be nice to see you smile.
Count Dracula Oh, I am. But I must warn you to take care.
Whatever for?
Count Dracula If, at any time, my company does not please you, you will have only yourself to blame for an acquaintance who seldom forces himself but is difficult to be rid of.
Count Dracula Listen to them, the children of the night. What sad music they make.
Do you think it's sad?
Count Dracula So lonely, like weeping.
I think it's a wonderful sound. I really love the night. It's so simple.
Count Dracula So deceptive.
So exciting.
Count Dracula You take the dawn for granted. The warm hot sunlight. Ah, but the night...
was made to enjoy.
Count Dracula Yes. Yes, it was. It was made to enjoy life... and love.
Count Dracula You are a wise man, Professor, for someone who has not yet lived a single lifetime.
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing You flatter me, Count.
Count Dracula But not wise enough to return to Holland at once, now that you have learned what you have learned.
Prof. Abraham Van Helsing I prefer to remain.
Count Dracula In the past 500 years, Professor, those who have crossed my path have all died, and some not pleasantly. Come here! [raises his hand to hypnotize Van Helsing]
Count Dracula Your will is strong. Then I must come to you.
Count Dracula Sacrilege! Sacrilege! [snarls and turns into a wolf to escape]
Milo Renfield I'm a slave, I'm a dog, master. But please don't kill me. For the love of God let me live.
Count Dracula Did I not promise you that you should come to me at you death, and enjoy centuries of life and power over the bodies and souls of others?
Milo Renfield But I don't want human life.
Count Dracula You betrayed me. You sought to warn them all against me.
Milo Renfield Then punish me, torture me, I deserve it. But please don't kill me.
Count Dracula Oh, Renfield, you disappoint me so. [breaks Renfield's neck]
Count Dracula Lucy, come! Come to me!
Count Dracula Now, you must go on a bit longer as of a creature of this earth. Only until we have left behind those who would destroy us.
And then?
Count Dracula Then you will join me on a higher plane feeding on them. We will create more of our kind, Lucy.
