Frankenstein (1931) · 27 quotes
Elizabeth
The very day we announced our engagement, he told me of his experiments. He said he was on the verge of a discovery so terrific that he doubted his own sanity. There was a strange look in his eyes, some mystery. His words carried me right away. Of course I've never doubted him but still I worry. I can't help it.
Victor
Perhaps he can tell me more about all this.
Elizabeth
Oh Victor, you're a dear.
Victor
You know I'd go to the ends of the earth for you.
Elizabeth
I shouldn't like that. I'm far too fond of you.
Victor
I wish you were!
Elizabeth
Victor.
Victor
I'm sorry.
Waldman
Herr Frankenstein is greatly changed.
Victor
You mean changed as a result of his work?
Waldman
Yes, his work, his insane ambition to create life.
Elizabeth
How? How? Please tell us everything, whatever it is.
Waldman
The bodies we use in our dissecting room for lecture purposes were not perfect enough for his experiments, he said. He wished us to supply him with other bodies and we were not to be too particular as to where and how we got them. I told him that his demands were unreasonable. And so he left the University to work unhampered. He found what he needed elsewhere.
Victor
Oh! The bodies of animals. Well, what are the lives of a few rabbits and dogs?
Waldman
You do not quite get what I mean. Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life — first to destroy it, then recreate it. There you have his mad dream.
Henry
Elizabeth, please, won't you go away? Won't you trust me, just for tonight?
Elizabeth
You're ill. What's the matter?
Henry
Nothing. I'm quite all right, truly I am. Oh, can't you see? I mustn't be disturbed. You'll ruin everything. My experiment is almost completed.
Elizabeth
Wait a moment. I understand. I believe in you. But I cannot leave you tonight.
Henry
You've got to leave!
Victor
Henry, you're inhuman. You're crazy.
Henry
Crazy, am I? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not. Come on up...
If you please, Herr Baron, the burgomaster.
Baron
Well, tell him to go away.
But he says it's important.
Baron
Nothing the burgomaster can say can be of the slightest importance.
Good day, Herr Baron. Frulein.
Baron
Well, what do you want? if it's trouble, go away. I've trouble enough.
Oh, there's no trouble, sir.
Baron
What do you mean, "no trouble"? there's nothing but trouble.
I brought you these flowers.
Elizabeth
Thank you, Herr Vogel.
Henry
It's like heaven, being with you again.
Elizabeth
Heaven wasn't so far away all the time, you know.
Henry
I know, but I didn't realize it. My work. Those horrible days and nights. I couldn't think of anything else.
Elizabeth
Henry. You're not to think of those things anymore. You promised.
Elizabeth
Henry. I'm afraid. Terribly afraid. Where's Dr. Waldman? Why is he late for the wedding?
Henry
Oh, he's always late. He'll be here soon.
Elizabeth
Something is going to happen. I feel it. I can't get it out of my mind.
Henry
You're just nervous. All the excitement and preparation.
Elizabeth
No, no. It isn't that. I felt it all day. Something is coming between us. I know it! I know it!
Henry
Sit down and rest. You look so tired.
Elizabeth
If I could just do something to save us from it.
Henry
From what, dear, from what?
Elizabeth
I don't know. If I could just get it out of my mind. Oh, I'd die if I had to lose you now, Henry.
Henry
Lose me? Why, I'll always be with you.
Elizabeth
Will you, Henry? Are you sure? I love you so.