“Bride of Frankenstein” quotes

“An audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story. So, why shouldn't I write of monsters?”
Elsa Lanchester - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“- Karl: Pretty little thing, in her way, wasn't she?
- Doctor Pretorius: I hope her bones are firm.”

Dwight Frye - Karl
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“Follow the lead of nature - or of God, if you like your Bible stories. Male and female created to them. Be fruitful and multiply. Create a race. A manmade race upon the face of the earth.”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“I have prayed many times for God to send me a friend. It's very lonely here. And it's been a long time since any human being came into this hut.”

O.P. Heggie - Hermit

“What a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world - the secret that God is so jealous of: the formula for life.”
Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life!”
Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“Think of the power to create a man and I did. I did it! I created a man - and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will. I could have built a race. I might even have found the secret of eternal life!”
Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

After twenty years of secret scientific research and countless failures, I also have created life as we say: "In God's own image".

Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“You think I'm mad. Perhaps I am. But listen, Henry Frankenstein. While you were digging in your graves, piecing together dead tissues, I, my dear pupil, went for my material to the source of life. I grew my creatures, like cultures, grew them as nature does, from seed.”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“Death is sacred - and I profaned it.”
Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

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

“Our mad dream is only half realized. Alone, you have created the man. Now, together, we will create his mate.”

Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“- 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

“To a new world of gods and monsters!”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“My part in the experiment is complete. I have created by my method a perfect human brain, already living but dormant.”

Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“- Henry Frankenstein: It may be that I'm intended to know the secret of life. It may be part of the divine plan.
- Elizabeth: No, no! It's the devil that prompts you. It's death, not life!”
Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein
Valerie Hobson - Elizabeth

“She hate me. Like others.”

Boris Karloff - The Monster

“Come in, my poor friend. No one will hurt you here. If you're in trouble, perhaps I can help you. But you need not tell me about it if you don't want to. What's the matter? You're hurt, my poor friend.”

O.P. Heggie - Hermit

“What we need is a female victim of sudden death.”

Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“This isn't science. It's more like black magic.”

Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, no nonsense about angels and being good.”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“- Doctor Pretorius: Everything is now ready for you and me to begin our supreme collaboration!
- Henry Frankenstein: No, no. Don't tell me of it. I don't want to hear! I've changed my mind. I won't do it!”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius
Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“- Henry Frankenstein: This is Professor Pretorius. He used to be Doctor of Philosophy at the university but, uh...
- Doctor Pretorius: But was booted out - booted, my dear Baron, is the word - for knowing too much.”

Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.”
Elsa Lanchester - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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