Boris Karloff movie quotes

“The monster was the best friend I ever had.”

Boris Karloff

“- Dr. Fu Manchu: The slightest move will send a bullet crashing through your stiff British spine.
- Nayland Smith: Are you in the habit of shooting your enemies in the back?”
Boris Karloff - Dr. Fu Manchu
Lewis Stone - Nayland Smith

“The torture of the bell: it never stops. Minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day. Seems harmless, doesn't it? Just a bell ringing. But the percussion and the repercussion of sound against your eardrums will soften and destroy them until the sound is magnified a thousand times.”

Boris Karloff - Dr. Fu Manchu

“Men of Asia! The skies are red with the thunderbolts of Genghis Khan! They rain down on the white race... and burn them!”
Boris Karloff - Dr. Fu Manchu

“You won your fight with me, Jew, but remember, victory may have been won too dearly.”
Boris Karloff - Count Ledrantz

“Alone: bad. Friend: good!”
Boris Karloff - The Monster

I am a doctor of philosophy from Edinburgh, a doctor of law from Christ's College, a doctor of medicine from Harvard. My friends, out of courtesy, call me "Doctor".
Boris Karloff - Dr. Fu Manchu

“- Doctor Pretorius: Do you know who Henry Frankenstein is, and who you are?
- The Monster: Yes, I know. Made me from dead. I love dead. Hate living.”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius
Boris Karloff - The Monster

“- Ullman: Don't kill me!
- Doctor Gustav Niemann: Kill my trusted old assistant? Why, no. I'm going to repay you for betraying me; I'm going to give that brain of yours a new home in the skull of the Frankenstein monster.”
Frank Reicher - Ullman
Boris Karloff - Doctor Gustav Niemann

“She hate me. Like others.”

Boris Karloff - The Monster

“I want friend like me.”
Boris Karloff - The Monster