Shelby Carpenter: I don't know a lot about anything, but I know a little about practically everything.


--Vincent Price (as Shelby Carpenter) in Laura

Shelby Carpenter: I forgot to tell you, I also read palms, I swallow swords, I mend my own socks, I never eat garlic or onions, what more could you want of a man?


--Vincent Price (as Shelby Carpenter) in Laura

Shelby Carpenter: I knew there was something on my mind. Ah yes, will you dine with me tomorrow night?
Laura Hunt: Yes.
Shelby Carpenter: No, it's not that - it's the next night. And what about three weeks from tonight? And all the nights in between?
Laura Hunt: Shelby, you talk as if I had no other engagements!
Shelby Carpenter: And two months from now? And the month after that?
Laura Hunt: What about next year?
Shelby Carpenter: Oh, that's all settled. What about breakfast?
Laura Hunt: What about dancing?
Shelby Carpenter: What about lunch? Beautiful lunches, day after day after day?


--Vincent Price (as Shelby Carpenter) in Laura

Verden Fell: Christopher, not ten minutes ago I... I tried to kill a stray cat with a cabbage, and all but made love to the Lady Rowena. I succeeded is squashing the cabbage and badly frightening the lady. If only I could lay open my own brain as easily as I did that vegetable, what rot would be freed from its grey leaves?


--Vincent Price (as ) in The Tomb of Ligeia

Verden Fell: The eyes, they confound me. There's a blankness, a mindless sort of malice in some Egyptian. They do not readily yield up the mystery.


--Vincent Price (as ) in The Tomb of Ligeia

Waldo Trumbull: [gesturing toward the body of Mr. Phipps] I'm afraid, madam, he has made his final journey towards that stygian shore.
Mrs. Phipps: [blankly] What?
Waldo Trumbull: He's dead.


--Vincent Price (as Waldo Trumbull) in The Comedy of Terrors

Waldo Trumbull: [realizing he's been cheated of his fee by Mrs. Phipps] Is there no morality left in this world?


--Vincent Price (as Waldo Trumbull) in The Comedy of Terrors

Waldo Trumbull: [to a stuffed bear] What are you grinning at?


--Vincent Price (as Waldo Trumbull) in The Comedy of Terrors

Waldo Trumbull: [to Mr. Gillie while giving him a boost up] *What did you step in?*


--Vincent Price (as Waldo Trumbull) in The Comedy of Terrors

Waldo Trumbull: Get away from me!
Amaryllis Trumbull: Am I so repulsive?
Waldo Trumbull: That's the word, yes.
Amaryllis Trumbull: Couldn't you find it in your heart to love me, Waldo?
Waldo Trumbull: Get up, you're sitting on my money!
Amaryllis Trumbull: So you reject me?
Waldo Trumbull: As long as there's liquor in the house!


--Vincent Price (as Waldo Trumbull) in The Comedy of Terrors