Tied for most-quoted character in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996): in 7 of its 22 quotes
Most scenes with: Sayer of the Law (2), Dr. Moreau (2)
Our plane crashed in the endless southern Pacific, and we drifted for days between life and death. On the sixth or seventh day, the two men who had survived with me began to fight over the last canteen of water. They fought like beasts, not men. I fought for my life, just as savagely as they did.
Edward Douglas I saw very little of Moreau as the crisis broke. He was in the laboratory, working away in pursuit of his dream to create a perfect human race. Nothing was said of my attempted escape. Montgomery, who had once been a brilliant neurosurgeon, was reduced to being the beast-people's jailor - and now he had become mine too.
Edward Douglas This is a true record of what I saw. I set it down only leaving out the longitude and latitude of the island, as a warning to all who would follow in Moreau's footsteps. Most times, I keep the memory far in the back of my mind, a distant cloud. But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. At those times, I look about me at my fellow men and am reminded of some likeness to the beast-people. And I feel as though the animal is surging up in them, and they are neither wholly animal nor wholly man, but an unstable combination of both. As unstable as anything Moreau created. And I go... in fear.
Edward Douglas Are you a doctor?
Well, I'm more of a vet.
Mr. Douglas, first of all, for the sake of propriety, I'd like to present my children.
Hello, I am Waggdi. [sits back down]
Azazello How do you do, sir. I'm Azazello. [sits back down]
M'Ling My name is M'Ling. [sits back down]
You've already met my beautiful daughter Aissa. Majai do present yourself, please.
He means you no harm, Mr. Douglas. He's just trying to be polite. He just wants to shake your hand.
Edward Douglas This is the most... outrageous spectacle I have ever witnessed. Look at yourself!
I understand that I must be shocking to you. However, I must also point out, that I have an allergy to the sun, and that's why I've put this medication on.
Edward Douglas Look at these people! [pause. Pointing to Majai] Look at him!
Mr. Douglas. I don't think that I have the intellectual ability to condense seventeen years of study and experiment into... seventeen minutes of explanation. For the moment, you will have to suffice to say that the... people that you witness before, living under my care and protection, are animals that have been fused with human genes. In the corse of a series of scientific studies designed by myself.
Edward Douglas Well, has it ever accord to you, you might have totally lost your mind? I mean, this is just satanic.
Judge not, Mr. Douglas, that ye be not judge. For by these judgements, shall ye also be judge, and let he who have not sin cast the first stone.
Edward Douglas There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
Well, Mr. Douglas, very good of you to join us. Please tell me, is the Devil still pursuing you?
Edward Douglas Well, perhaps you could explain to me what you mean by the Devil? You seem to be on terms with him.
Well, permit me, Mr. Douglas, to tell you something of the Devil as I've come to know him. The Devil is that element in human nature that impels us to destroy and debase.
Edward Douglas And what are you about upon this island but destruction and debasement?
Oh well, I can tell you very plainly...
No please, don't do that.
For seventeen years, I have been striving to create... some measure of refinement in the human species, you see. And it is here, on this very island, that I sir, have found the very essence of the Devil.
Edward Douglas What do you mean?
I have seen the Devil, in my microscope, and I have chained him, and I suppose you could say in a sense metaphorically speaking, I have cut him to pieces. The Devil, Mr. Douglas, I've found is nothing more than a tiresome collection of genes, and it is with great assurance that I can tell you, that Lucifer, Son of the Morning, is no more.
Five-man... please... tell them... that I am God. Hmm?
Edward Douglas You're right. You are... a god.
No!
Again.
Edward Douglas You are a god. You're all gods.
Tell them to obey me like they did the Father.
Edward Douglas You all killed the Father. You all ate his flesh. So who is the new Father? Who is God Number One? Who should they obey? Him? Or him? [indicating other members of Hyena-Swine's pack] You see, there must be a God Number One.
[the Hyena-Swine roars in Douglas's face, then rears up and opens fire on his pack members]
