Byron Orlok: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I'd like to leave you with a little story to think about as you drive home... through the darkness... Once upon a time, many, many years ago, a rich merchant in Baghdad sent his servant to the marketplace to buy provisions... and after a while the servant came back, white-faced and trembling, and said, 'Master, when I was in the marketplace, I was jostled by a woman in the crowd, and I turned to look, and I saw that it was Death that jostled me. And she looked at me and made a threatening gesture. Oh, master, please, lend me your horse, that I may ride away from this city and escape my fate. I will ride to Samarra and Death will not find me there.' So the merchant loaned him the horse and the servant mounted it, and dug his spurs into its flank, and as fast as the horse could gallop he rode towards Samarra. Then the merchant went to the market-place and he saw Death standing in the crowd and he said to her, 'Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?' And Death said, 'I made no threatening gesture - that was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him here in Baghdad, for I have an appointment with him tonight... in Samarra.'


--Boris Karloff (as Byron Orlok) in Targets

Byron Orlok: Oh, Sammy, what's the use? Mr. Boogey Man, King of Blood they used to call me. Marx Brothers make you laugh, Garbo makes you weep, Orlok makes you scream.


--Boris Karloff (as Byron Orlok) in Targets

Byron Orlok: You know what they call my films today? Camp! High camp!


--Boris Karloff (as Byron Orlok) in Targets

Cabman John Gray: I am a small man, a humble man. Being poor I have had to do much that I did not want to do. But so long as the great Dr McFarlane comes to my whistle, that long am I a man. If I have not that then I have nothing. Then I am only a cabman and a grave robber. You'll never get rid of me, Toddy.


--Boris Karloff (as Cabman John Gray) in The Body Snatcher

Cabman John Gray: There was a dog that bothered me during the last job. People are so concerned about dogs.


--Boris Karloff (as Cabman John Gray) in The Body Snatcher

Cabman John Gray: You've no need to be anxious, Meg. MacFarlane has been drunk and away before. He'll be beck in good time. Meanwhile, you have me to keep you company.
Meg Camden: I call that no good fortune.
Cabman John Gray: [laughs] There was a time, lass, a time when I used to bring the dashing young doctor to your door, but you weren't so uncommon cold to your old friend Gray.


--Boris Karloff (as Cabman John Gray) in The Body Snatcher

Dr. Bolton: [In the Seven Dials] This place must breed a hundres fevers!


--Boris Karloff (as Dr. Thomas Bolton) in Corridors of Blood

Dr. Felix Benet: I believe that this city is at the mercy of a madman whose body is an engine of destruction.


--Boris Karloff (as Dr. Janos Rukh) in The Invisible Ray

Dr. Felix Benet: There are only two people he wants to destroy: two... or
[looming over Ronald Drake]
Dr. Felix Benet: , perhaps three.


--Boris Karloff (as Dr. Janos Rukh) in The Invisible Ray

Dr. Felix Benet: We expected you.


--Boris Karloff (as Dr. Janos Rukh) in The Invisible Ray