“Sleepy Hollow” quotes

“- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Will you take nothing from Sleepy Hollow that was worth the coming here?
- Ichabod Crane: No. No, not nothing. A kiss from a lovely young woman, before she saw my face or knew my name.
- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Yes, without sense or reason.”
Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“I think you have no heart. And I had a mind once to give you mine.”

Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel

“- Young Masbath: A strange sort of witch, with a kind and loving heart. How can you think so?
- Ichabod Crane: I have good reason.
- Young Masbath: Then you are bewitched by reason.
- Ichabod Crane: I am beaten down by it!”

Marc Pickering - Young Masbath
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: I have shed my tears for Brom... and yet my heart is not broken. Do you think me wicked?
- Ichabod Crane: No... but perhaps there is a little bit of witch in you, Katrina.
- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Why do you say that?
- Ichabod Crane: Because you have bewitched me.”
Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Ichabod Crane: The millennium is almost upon us. In a few months, we will be living in the nineteenth century. But our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.
- High Constable: Stand down.
- Ichabod Crane: I stand up for sense and justice.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Alun Armstrong - High Constable

“- Ichabod Crane: You must believe me, it was a horseman, a dead one! Headless!
- Baltus Van Tassel: I know, I know.
- Ichabod Crane: You don't know because you were not there. It's all true!
- Baltus Van Tassel: Of course it is. I told you. Everyone told you.
- Ichabod Crane: I... saw him.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Sir Michael Gambon - Baltus Van Tassel

“- Ichabod Crane: Katrina, why are you in my room?
- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Because it is yours.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel

“Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.”
Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel

“- Brom Van Brunt: We haven't heard your name yet, friend.
- Ichabod Crane: I have not said it.”
Casper Van Dien - Brom Van Brunt
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“Truth is not always appearance.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Young Masbath: Is he dead?
- Ichabod Crane: That's the problem. He was dead to begin with.”
Marc Pickering - Young Masbath
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- The Burgomaster: There is a town, two days journey to the north in the Hudson Highlands. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it?
- Ichabod Crane: I have not.
- The Burgomaster: An isolated farming community, mainly Dutch. Three persons have been murdered there, all within a fortnight. Each one found with the head lopped...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Christopher Lee - Burgomaster
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Ichabod Crane: Katrina, I might have killed you. Why have you come?
- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Because no one else would go with you.
- Ichabod Crane: I am now twice the man, and it is your white magic.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel

“- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Keep it close to your heart. It's sure protection against harm.
- Ichabod Crane: Are you so certain of everything?”

Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Reverend Steenwyck: Their heads weren't found severed. Their heads were not found at all.
- Ichabod Crane: The heads are... gone?
- Notary James Hardenbrook: Taken. Taken by the Headless Horseman. Taken back to hell.”
Jeffrey Jones - Reverend Steenwyck
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“Just in time for a new century. You'll soon find your bearings, young Masbeth. The Bronx is up, the Battery is down, and home is this way.”

Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“If you are wise, you will leave this place.”

Sir Michael Gambon - Baltus Van Tassel

“An evil spirit possessed you. I pray God it is satisfied now, and you find peace. The evil eye has done its work; my life is over, spared for a lifetime of horrors in my sleep, waking each day to grief. Goodbye, Katrina.”

Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Ichabod Crane: We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins.
- Baltus Van Tassel: You are a long way from New York, constable.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Sir Michael Gambon - Baltus Van Tassel

“The horseman was a Hessian mercenary sent to the shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the horseman came for love of carnage.”
Sir Michael Gambon - Baltus Van Tassel

“I think you loved me that day when you followed me into the Western Woods... to have braved such peril.”

Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Ichabod Crane: We take the Indian Trail to the Tree of the Dead.
- Young Masbath: How will we recognize it?
- Ichabod Crane: Without difficulty, I rather fear. Then climb down to the Horseman's resting place.
- Young Masbath: His camp?
- Ichabod Crane: His grave.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Marc Pickering - Young Masbath

“Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“Why am I the only one who can see that to solve crimes we must use our brains, assisted by reason, using up-to-date scientific techniques?”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“There's a conspiracy here. The doctor, the reverend, the notary, and the magistrate. What is the secret that unites them? Magistrate Philipse knew there were five bodies to four graves, knew the widow was pregnant, but would not tell me the name of the father. What does this point to? We must proceed by a process of elimination. I shall make a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane